I just wanted to return to this and say that I think you were directionally correct here and, in light of recent news, recommending jobs at OpenAI in particular was probably a worse mistake than I realized when I wrote my original comment.
Reading the recent discussion about this reminded me of your post, and it’s good to see that 80k has updated somewhat. I still don’t know quite how to feel about the recommendations they’ve left up in infosec and safety, but I think I’m coming around to your POV here.
Hey yanni,
I just wanted to return to this and say that I think you were directionally correct here and, in light of recent news, recommending jobs at OpenAI in particular was probably a worse mistake than I realized when I wrote my original comment.
Reading the recent discussion about this reminded me of your post, and it’s good to see that 80k has updated somewhat. I still don’t know quite how to feel about the recommendations they’ve left up in infosec and safety, but I think I’m coming around to your POV here.
Hey mate! Lovely to hear from you :)
Yeah I just think that most EAs assume that the message does most of the work in marketing when it is actually the medium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
I think this is a fair assumption to make if you believe people make decisions extremely rationally.
I basically don’t (I.e. the 80k brand is powering the OpenAI brand through a Halo Effect).
Unfortunately this is really hard to avoid!