There’s people who are good at EA-related thinking and people who are less good at that.
There’s people who are good at accumulating resume padding, and people who are less good at that.
Although these are correlated, there will still be plenty of people who are good at EA thinking, but bad at accumulating resume padding. You can think of these people as having fallen through the cracks of the system.
Advances in LLMs give me the impression that we’re around ~2-5 years out from most EA orgs becoming much better at correctly identifying/drawing talent from this pool e.g. higher-quality summaries of posts and notes, or tracing upstream origins of original ideas.
I’m less optimistic about solutions to conflict theory/value alignment issues, but advances in talent sourcing/measurement might give orgs more room to focus hiring/evaluation energy on character traits. If talent is easy to measure then there’s less incentive to shrug and focus on candidates based on metrics that historically correlated with talent e.g. credentials.
There’s people who are good at EA-related thinking and people who are less good at that.
There’s people who are good at accumulating resume padding, and people who are less good at that.
Although these are correlated, there will still be plenty of people who are good at EA thinking, but bad at accumulating resume padding. You can think of these people as having fallen through the cracks of the system.
Advances in LLMs give me the impression that we’re around ~2-5 years out from most EA orgs becoming much better at correctly identifying/drawing talent from this pool e.g. higher-quality summaries of posts and notes, or tracing upstream origins of original ideas.
I’m less optimistic about solutions to conflict theory/value alignment issues, but advances in talent sourcing/measurement might give orgs more room to focus hiring/evaluation energy on character traits. If talent is easy to measure then there’s less incentive to shrug and focus on candidates based on metrics that historically correlated with talent e.g. credentials.