Is there a reason why you are focusing on compute and not salaries? The example numbers you use are rather low compared to the yearly salary of a single AIS researcher.
Fair question, I guess some of the numbers I’ve been hearing can wipe out a (high) yearly salary well within a month (or days).
Perhaps one layer deeper I generally “back” money spent on someone working on AIS full time for a year and think there will probably be some good to come out of that. Although it may happen quickly, it seems that at least some level of thought goes into which positions are needed to fill before the job posting goes out.
However, on individual experiments level, I think the level of scrutiny is much lower/potentially nonexistent.
There seem to be plausible arguments for paying market rate to retain top talent (although you may disagree with them), but I don’t really think there’s an argument to spend huge sums on experiments without even double-checking if there’s a way this can reduce x-risk.
Is there a reason why you are focusing on compute and not salaries? The example numbers you use are rather low compared to the yearly salary of a single AIS researcher.
Fair question, I guess some of the numbers I’ve been hearing can wipe out a (high) yearly salary well within a month (or days).
Perhaps one layer deeper I generally “back” money spent on someone working on AIS full time for a year and think there will probably be some good to come out of that. Although it may happen quickly, it seems that at least some level of thought goes into which positions are needed to fill before the job posting goes out.
However, on individual experiments level, I think the level of scrutiny is much lower/potentially nonexistent.
There seem to be plausible arguments for paying market rate to retain top talent (although you may disagree with them), but I don’t really think there’s an argument to spend huge sums on experiments without even double-checking if there’s a way this can reduce x-risk.