RAISE was oriented toward producing people who become typical MIRI researchers… I expect that MIRI needs atypically good researchers.
Slightly odd phrasing here which I don’t really understand, since I think the typical MIRI researcher is very good at what they do, and that most of them are atypically good researchers compared with the general population of researchers.
Do you mean instead “RAISE was oriented toward producing people who would be typical for an AI researcher in general”? Or do you mean that there are only minor benefits from additional researchers who are about as good as current MIRI researchers?
I meant something like “good enough to look like a MIRI researcher, but unlikely to turn out to be more productive than the average MIRI researcher”. I guess when I wrote that I was feeling somewhat pessimistic about MIRI’s hiring process. Given optimistic assumptions about how well MIRI distinguishes good from bad job applicants, then I’d expect that MIRI wouldn’t hire RAISE graduates.
Slightly odd phrasing here which I don’t really understand, since I think the typical MIRI researcher is very good at what they do, and that most of them are atypically good researchers compared with the general population of researchers.
Do you mean instead “RAISE was oriented toward producing people who would be typical for an AI researcher in general”? Or do you mean that there are only minor benefits from additional researchers who are about as good as current MIRI researchers?
I meant something like “good enough to look like a MIRI researcher, but unlikely to turn out to be more productive than the average MIRI researcher”. I guess when I wrote that I was feeling somewhat pessimistic about MIRI’s hiring process. Given optimistic assumptions about how well MIRI distinguishes good from bad job applicants, then I’d expect that MIRI wouldn’t hire RAISE graduates.