I want to register disagreement. Multiplier effects are difficult to get and easy to overestimate. It’s very difficult to get other people working on the right problem, rather than slipping off and working on an easier but ultimately useless problem. From my perspective, it looks like MATS fell into this exact trap. MATS has kicked out ~all the mentors who were focused on real problems (in technical alignment) and has a large stack of new mentors working on useless but easy problems.
I want to register disagreement. Multiplier effects are difficult to get and easy to overestimate. It’s very difficult to get other people working on the right problem, rather than slipping off and working on an easier but ultimately useless problem. From my perspective, it looks like MATS fell into this exact trap. MATS has kicked out ~all the mentors who were focused on real problems (in technical alignment) and has a large stack of new mentors working on useless but easy problems.