I’m fine with junior ops people at an AI org being not really atall bought into the specific research agenda.
I’m fine with senior technical people not being fully bought in—in the sense that maybe they think if it were up to them a different agenda would be slightly higher value, or that they’d go about things a slightly different way. I think we should expect that people have slightly different takes, and don’t get the luxury of ironing all of those differences out, and that’s pretty healthy. (Of course I like them having a go at discussing differences of opinion, but I don’t think failure to resolve a difference means that the they need to adopt the party line or go find a different org.)
That makes sense, and feels mostly in line with what I would imagine.
Maybe this is a small point (since there will be many more junior than senior roles in the long run) : I feel like the senior group would likely join an org for many other reasons than deference to authority (e.g. not wanting to found an org themselves, wanting to work with particular people they feel they could get a good work environment from, or because of epistemic deference). It seems like in practice those would be much stronger motivating reasons than authority, and I’m having a hard time picturing someone doing this in practice.
I’m fine with junior ops people at an AI org being not really at all bought into the specific research agenda.
I’m fine with senior technical people not being fully bought in—in the sense that maybe they think if it were up to them a different agenda would be slightly higher value, or that they’d go about things a slightly different way. I think we should expect that people have slightly different takes, and don’t get the luxury of ironing all of those differences out, and that’s pretty healthy. (Of course I like them having a go at discussing differences of opinion, but I don’t think failure to resolve a difference means that the they need to adopt the party line or go find a different org.)
That makes sense, and feels mostly in line with what I would imagine.
Maybe this is a small point (since there will be many more junior than senior roles in the long run) : I feel like the senior group would likely join an org for many other reasons than deference to authority (e.g. not wanting to found an org themselves, wanting to work with particular people they feel they could get a good work environment from, or because of epistemic deference). It seems like in practice those would be much stronger motivating reasons than authority, and I’m having a hard time picturing someone doing this in practice.