What's your age?
It sounds like you think that having a high school degree, a bachelor's degree and a master's degree is a requirement for working on AI safety. That isn't true Eliezer Yudkowsky for example has neither of those.
21-22.
The government is willing to give me (stolen from taxpayers) around $1000/month in student welfare to finish my high school degree. And a student loan at ~1.5% interest of around $1000/month and ~$500 in welfare for university. However if I work part-time alongside finishing high school, it will pretty much be what I pay in taxes. ~50% tax on freelance, and 25% on goods I purchase in the store. But that means 60 h / week.
I don't think I want to work in an unskilled labor job. If I was certain that my IQ was around 100 then I would... If I don't go to...
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