I agree with the paper that paying here probably has minimal effects on devs, but also even if it does have an effect it doesn’t seem likely to change the results, unless somehow the AI group was more more incentivized to be slow than the non AI group.
I was one of the devs. Granted the money went to Lightcone and not me personally, but even if it had, I don’t see it motivating me in any particular direction. For one thing, Not taking longer – I’ve got too much to do to to drag my feet to make a little more money. Not pleasing METR – I didn’t believe they wanted any particular result.
I agree with the paper that paying here probably has minimal effects on devs, but also even if it does have an effect it doesn’t seem likely to change the results, unless somehow the AI group was more more incentivized to be slow than the non AI group.
I was one of the devs. Granted the money went to Lightcone and not me personally, but even if it had, I don’t see it motivating me in any particular direction. For one thing, Not taking longer – I’ve got too much to do to to drag my feet to make a little more money. Not pleasing METR – I didn’t believe they wanted any particular result.
FWIW: this is my qualitative sense for other devs too.