I’m not sure how they decide on what salaries to pay themselves. But the reason they have the money to pay themselves those salaries in the first place is that MIRI’s donors believe there’s a significant chance of AI destroying the world within the next 5-20 years and that MIRI (especially Yudkowsky) is uniquely positioned to prevent this from happening.
I’m not sure how they decide on what salaries to pay themselves. But the reason they have the money to pay themselves those salaries in the first place is that MIRI’s donors believe there’s a significant chance of AI destroying the world within the next 5-20 years and that MIRI (especially Yudkowsky) is uniquely positioned to prevent this from happening.