I’m not sure I make the connection between what you described and meta-honesty norms. The flakiness and unresponsiveness you described is unfortunately endemic to company recruiters. I attribute it to the fact that corresponding with lots of job applicants is a lot of work which is not fun, and bad incentive structures that don’t appropriately reward/punish doing a good/bad job with hiring. It’s too bad that MIRI hasn’t managed to outperform that status quo, but I guess they didn’t.
I’m not sure I make the connection between what you described and meta-honesty norms. The flakiness and unresponsiveness you described is unfortunately endemic to company recruiters. I attribute it to the fact that corresponding with lots of job applicants is a lot of work which is not fun, and bad incentive structures that don’t appropriately reward/punish doing a good/bad job with hiring. It’s too bad that MIRI hasn’t managed to outperform that status quo, but I guess they didn’t.