For example, I can’t imagine any EA donor paying a non-ML engineer/manager $400,000, even if that person could make $2,000,000 in industry.
Hm, I thought lightcone infrastructure might do that.
Our current salary policy is to pay rates competitive with industry salary minus 30%. Given prevailing salary levels in the Bay Area for the kind of skill level we are looking at, we expect salaries to start at $150k/year plus healthcare (but we would be open to paying $315k for someone who would make $450k in industry).
Yea; lightcone is much closer to any other group I knew of before. I was really surprised by their announcement.
I think it’s highly unusual (this seems much higher than the other and previous non-ai eng roles I knew of).
I’d also be very surprised if Lightcone chose someone for $400,000 or more. My guess is that they’ll be aiming for the sorts of people who aren’t quite that expensive.
So, I think Lightcone is making a reasonable move here, but it’s an unusual move. Also, if we thought that future ea/engineering projects would have to pay $200k-500k per engineer, I think that would change the way we think about them a lot.
Hm, I thought lightcone infrastructure might do that.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eR7Su77N2nK3e5YRZ/the-lesswrong-team-is-now-lightcone-infrastructure-come-work-3
Yea; lightcone is much closer to any other group I knew of before. I was really surprised by their announcement.
I think it’s highly unusual (this seems much higher than the other and previous non-ai eng roles I knew of).
I’d also be very surprised if Lightcone chose someone for $400,000 or more. My guess is that they’ll be aiming for the sorts of people who aren’t quite that expensive.
So, I think Lightcone is making a reasonable move here, but it’s an unusual move. Also, if we thought that future ea/engineering projects would have to pay $200k-500k per engineer, I think that would change the way we think about them a lot.