Re the “concerns around HR practices” link, I don’t think that Washington Post article is the best thing to link. That focuses on clauses stopping people talking to regulators which, while very bad, seems less “holy shit WTF” to me than the threatening people’s previously paid compensation over non-disparagements thing. I think the best article on that is Kelsey Piper’s (though OpenAI have seemingly mostly released people from those and corresponding threats, and Kelsey’s article doesn’t link to follow-ups discussing those).
My metric here is roughly “if a friend of mine wanted to join OpenAI, what would I warn them about” rather than “which is objectively worse for the world”, and I think ‘they are willing to threaten millions of dollars of stock you have already been paid’ is much more important to warn about.
This is a great update, thanks!
Re the “concerns around HR practices” link, I don’t think that Washington Post article is the best thing to link. That focuses on clauses stopping people talking to regulators which, while very bad, seems less “holy shit WTF” to me than the threatening people’s previously paid compensation over non-disparagements thing. I think the best article on that is Kelsey Piper’s (though OpenAI have seemingly mostly released people from those and corresponding threats, and Kelsey’s article doesn’t link to follow-ups discussing those).
My metric here is roughly “if a friend of mine wanted to join OpenAI, what would I warn them about” rather than “which is objectively worse for the world”, and I think ‘they are willing to threaten millions of dollars of stock you have already been paid’ is much more important to warn about.
In the context of an EA jobs list it seems like both are pretty bad. (there’s the “job list” part, and the “EA” part)
I’m pro including both, but was just commenting on which I would choose if only including one for space reasons