These organizations are not spending huge amounts of time and energy trying to hire for the fun of rejecting people.
I agree, but I think they are being too inefficient with their hiring, and bad at utilizing the talent that’s there already, and they are only able to stay this incompetent / inefficient because we have such a great pipeline of new AI safety talent lining up to work for these orgs that they can continue being bad at hiring and working with their existing talent. I think they should get better at these things instead of keeping telling more people to switch to AI safety. (I don’t have actual, recent evidence of this, I worked at safety orgs in 2022-2024, so make what you will of this.)
So basically, you’re telling people not to work on the most important thing in the world that might kill all of us and destroy everything we care about if people don’t get it right on the basis of something that you don’t have actual recent evidence of? Based on experiences that happened between 2022 and 2024? Maybe that should, uh, go near the top of the post.
Also, maybe you should describe those experiences and how they’re evidence for your hypothesis.
So basically, you’re telling people not to work on the most important thing in the world
Hm, I’m not saying that people should not work on AI safety. I just think we currently overcommunicate this message and it’s bad to do so. I think there is a difference?
I agree, but I think they are being too inefficient with their hiring, and bad at utilizing the talent that’s there already, and they are only able to stay this incompetent / inefficient because we have such a great pipeline of new AI safety talent lining up to work for these orgs that they can continue being bad at hiring and working with their existing talent. I think they should get better at these things instead of keeping telling more people to switch to AI safety. (I don’t have actual, recent evidence of this, I worked at safety orgs in 2022-2024, so make what you will of this.)
So basically, you’re telling people not to work on the most important thing in the world that might kill all of us and destroy everything we care about if people don’t get it right on the basis of something that you don’t have actual recent evidence of? Based on experiences that happened between 2022 and 2024? Maybe that should, uh, go near the top of the post.
Also, maybe you should describe those experiences and how they’re evidence for your hypothesis.
Hm, I’m not saying that people should not work on AI safety. I just think we currently overcommunicate this message and it’s bad to do so. I think there is a difference?