I also wonder about the hiring for AI Safety, here in the Bay: after talking to people who struggled to get hired as a PA in AI Safety, despite a background in CS and an interest in AI and safety for 5 years… while a pretty girl with a psych background got hired as PA immediately, multiple offers? It sounds like the nerds at Berkeley are hoping to hire-in a Bankman-sized polycule as PAs.
Please don’t assume a woman only got a job as a PA because she is pretty rather than anything to do with her skills. A CS background vs a psych background is a very weak case for making this assumption and I think you should err against this type of reasoning in any case given how insulting it is.
Especially given your final sentence (I don’t think I even need to explain how that one is extremely rude and unnecessary).
I’d also like to ask clarification about your last sentence: I said ‘nerds’, and that may be what you found particularly offensive, there; or, that I hypothesize that men in those organizations are hiring hoping for a date? I am not attempting to ‘blame a woman’ for getting a job, by the way—I am pointing to the people who are doing the hiring for potentially selfish reasons.
Well, there’s a simple empirical measure, rather than relying on whether an argument is approved-of or not: Do any of them date? Are they hoping to keep that fact hidden?
Please don’t assume a woman only got a job as a PA because she is pretty rather than anything to do with her skills. A CS background vs a psych background is a very weak case for making this assumption and I think you should err against this type of reasoning in any case given how insulting it is.
Especially given your final sentence (I don’t think I even need to explain how that one is extremely rude and unnecessary).
I’d also like to ask clarification about your last sentence: I said ‘nerds’, and that may be what you found particularly offensive, there; or, that I hypothesize that men in those organizations are hiring hoping for a date? I am not attempting to ‘blame a woman’ for getting a job, by the way—I am pointing to the people who are doing the hiring for potentially selfish reasons.
Well, there’s a simple empirical measure, rather than relying on whether an argument is approved-of or not: Do any of them date? Are they hoping to keep that fact hidden?