I see. Yes I think your previous claim was an overstatement.
I also share Habryka’s perspective, I’ve broadly not been sold on technical talent being vastly more important than non-technical talent since MIRI gave up on trying to actually solve the full alignment problem and Christiano stopped working on alignment theory, and I think that many of the people I listed have much more potential to do things that are good than most of the people you listed at Anthropic; but going into more detail on all that would take more time than seems worth it this afternoon.
FWIW I definitely don’t think technical talent is vastly more important, I just assumed that’s the resource that people would most think METR might be a large consumer of given most of our roles are technical roles
I see. Yes I think your previous claim was an overstatement.
I also share Habryka’s perspective, I’ve broadly not been sold on technical talent being vastly more important than non-technical talent since MIRI gave up on trying to actually solve the full alignment problem and Christiano stopped working on alignment theory, and I think that many of the people I listed have much more potential to do things that are good than most of the people you listed at Anthropic; but going into more detail on all that would take more time than seems worth it this afternoon.
FWIW I definitely don’t think technical talent is vastly more important, I just assumed that’s the resource that people would most think METR might be a large consumer of given most of our roles are technical roles