“You should apply for [insert EA grant], all I had to do was pretend to care about x, and I got $$!”
I can speak of one EA institution, which I will not name, that suffers from this. Math and cognitive science majors can get a little too far in EA circles just by mumbling something about AI Safety, and not delivering any actual interfacing with the literature or the community.
Update: I had a chance to talk to quinn irl about this, and speaking in very broad strokes, I consider the problem (at least for the specific example they gave) an order of magnitude less significant than when I read it the first time on this forum.
I can speak of one EA institution, which I will not name, that suffers from this. Math and cognitive science majors can get a little too far in EA circles just by mumbling something about AI Safety, and not delivering any actual interfacing with the literature or the community.
So, thanks for posting.
Have you told the institution about this? Seems like a pretty important thing for them to know!
Update: I had a chance to talk to quinn irl about this, and speaking in very broad strokes, I consider the problem (at least for the specific example they gave) an order of magnitude less significant than when I read it the first time on this forum.