I would endorse what John Maxwell has said but would be interested to hear more details.
After graduating, why would you need to be based in Kagoshima? Most postdocs travel around the world a lot in order to be with the leading experts and x-risk research is no different.
Have you taken a look at the content on MIRI's Agent Foundations forum?
Have you considered running a MIRIx workshop to practice AI safety research?
Have you considered applying to visit AI safety researchers at MIRI or FHI? That would help you to figure out where your interests and theirs overlap, and to consider how you might contribute. If you're not eligible to visit for some reason, that might imply that you're further from being useful than you thought.
Good luck!
Thank you!
After graduating, why would you need to be based in Kagoshima?
I need to be based in Kagoshima for pretty strong personal reasons. Sorry for not providing details. If you really need them, I can tell you more via PM.
Ah, you write »after graduating«? Sorry for not providing that detail: research students in Japan are not working on a master's or PhD. They're just hanging around studying or doing research and hopefully learn something during that time.
Have you taken a look at the content on MIRI's to practice AI safety research?
Yes, I've rea...
(I'm re-posting my question from the Welcome thread, because nobody answered there.)
I care about the current and future state of humanity, so I think it's good to work on existential or global catastrophic risk. Since I've studied computer science at a university until last year, I decided to work on AI safety. Currently I'm a research student at Kagoshima University doing exactly that. Before April this year I had only little experience with AI or ML. Therefore, I'm slowly digging through books and articles in order to be able to do research.
I'm living off my savings. My research student time will end in March 2017 and my savings will run out some time after that. Nevertheless, I want to continue AI safety research, or at least work on X or GC risk.
I see three ways of doing this:
Oh, and I need to be location-independent or based in Kagoshima.
I know http://futureoflife.org/job-postings/, but all of the job postings fail me in two ways: not location-independent and requiring more/different experience than I have.
Can anyone here help me? If yes, I would be happy to provide more information about myself.
(Note that I think I'm not in a precarious situation, because I would be able to get a remote software development job fairly easily. Just not in AI safety or X or GC risk.)