Sure, there is some pay pressure, but I didnt leave UK AISI because the pay was too low, I left because the projects were uninteresting and behind the curve with respect to what others are doing. Im perfectly happy to work for less pay so long as I am working on meaningful projects at a frontier institution where actual work is happening.
A lot of my work was getting told to investigate this or that, and then I would do the usual initial field overview and get told that that was enough and great work and yada yada yada. Excuse me? We didn’t even calculate anything yet? No no, thats enough...
I’m sorry, I (and many others coming from physics) got hired because of quantitative prowess, the work doesn’t have merit until we actually calculate. Drawing a few functors to map some categories is just a plan and it isn’t enough, this stuff depends on the details and we need to calculate. You can’t “vibemath” alignment.
Sure, there is some pay pressure, but I didnt leave UK AISI because the pay was too low, I left because the projects were uninteresting and behind the curve with respect to what others are doing. Im perfectly happy to work for less pay so long as I am working on meaningful projects at a frontier institution where actual work is happening.
A lot of my work was getting told to investigate this or that, and then I would do the usual initial field overview and get told that that was enough and great work and yada yada yada. Excuse me? We didn’t even calculate anything yet? No no, thats enough...
I’m sorry, I (and many others coming from physics) got hired because of quantitative prowess, the work doesn’t have merit until we actually calculate. Drawing a few functors to map some categories is just a plan and it isn’t enough, this stuff depends on the details and we need to calculate. You can’t “vibemath” alignment.