“Streetlight, Torchlight and Nightvision” by DusanDNesic

LessWrong (30+ Karma) · Oct 28, 2026 · 11m

Note: We at PrincInt are launching a program teaching “Discernment” or “Taste” and generally spend a lot of our time in workshops and otherwise trying to teach academics how to think about AI such that their research ends up being useful. I had used a metaphor (building on Wentworth's postmortem) multiple times to explain what we do and why, and thought that it could be useful more broadly. All views are my own, and strategy takes do not represent everyone at PrincInt etc. AI writing level 0 (no non-trivial use)

When I first joined the field, I told 80,000 hours that I have a background in…