Cheers, Jamie! Keep in mind, however, that these are current needs, and teenagers will likely be facing a job market with future needs. As we say in the report:
...predictions about future talent needs from interviewees didn’t consistently point in the same direction.
Also feel like a big limitation is that this data comes from asking current orgs. Asking current orgs how many “connectors” they need feels a bit like asking a company how many CEOs they want.
Nonetheless, still an update! E.g. this bit was slightly surprising to me:
Funders of independent researchers we’ve interviewed think that there are plenty of talented applicants, but would prefer more research proposals focused on relatively few existing promising research directions (e.g., Open Phil RFPs,MATS mentors’ agendas), rather than a profusion of speculative new agendas. This leads us to believe that they would also prefer that independent researchers be approaching their work from an Iterator mindset, locating plausible contributions they can make within established paradigms, rather than from a Connector mindset, which would privilege time spent developing novel approaches.
Yeah, we deliberately refrained from commenting much on the talent needs for founding new orgs. Hopefully, we will have more to say on this later, but it feels somewhat pinned to AI safety macrostrategy, which is complicated.
I found this helpful. It updated me towards the importance of finding/supporting iterators, relative to connectors. Thank you!
Cheers, Jamie! Keep in mind, however, that these are current needs, and teenagers will likely be facing a job market with future needs. As we say in the report:
Yep, I realise that.
Also feel like a big limitation is that this data comes from asking current orgs. Asking current orgs how many “connectors” they need feels a bit like asking a company how many CEOs they want.
Nonetheless, still an update! E.g. this bit was slightly surprising to me:
Yeah, we deliberately refrained from commenting much on the talent needs for founding new orgs. Hopefully, we will have more to say on this later, but it feels somewhat pinned to AI safety macrostrategy, which is complicated.