I think it’s notably abnormal specifically because it wasn’t the “default” equilibrium for OpenAI specifically.
Like earlier you mentioned:
selective hiring is very real. lots of people who are xrisk pilled just refuse to join oai. people who care a lot often end up very stressed and leave in large part because of the stress.
and
most cases of xrisk people leaving are just because people felt sidelined/unhappy and chose to leave.
One model of this is “its normal that people at any company don’t have strong opinions about their work”. Another model is “lots of people in various positions did in fact have strong opinions about this given the stakes and left”.
If you send such strong signals about safety that people preemptively filter out of the hiring pipeline, then people who are already there with strong opinions on safety feel sidelined, IMO the obvious interpretation is “you actively filtered against people with strong views on safety”.
I think it’s notably abnormal specifically because it wasn’t the “default” equilibrium for OpenAI specifically.
Like earlier you mentioned:
and
One model of this is “its normal that people at any company don’t have strong opinions about their work”. Another model is “lots of people in various positions did in fact have strong opinions about this given the stakes and left”.
If you send such strong signals about safety that people preemptively filter out of the hiring pipeline, then people who are already there with strong opinions on safety feel sidelined, IMO the obvious interpretation is “you actively filtered against people with strong views on safety”.