[Speaking for myself, not for Rethink Priorities.]
>I do not yet know of any research that is the result of your recent hiring that actually seems useful to me (which is not very surprising, it’s not been very long!).
Yes, naturally that would take more than two months to produce!
I think someone reading this thread might (incorrectly) think “Habryka is saying the research that these hires have produced hasn’t actually seemed useful. Peter agrees but emphasises that it’ll take longer for the researchers to produce stuff that’s more useful.” The real situation is simply that the people hired around November haven’t yet published anyproperpublic write-ups (though there are things in the works that should be out in the coming months) - i.e., the situation isn’t that they published stuff that Habryka found non-useful.
Hopefully our upcoming first outputs will indeed seem useful!
(I’m not saying Habryka or Peter said incorrect things; I’m just making a guess as to how someone could’ve interpreted what Habryka said.)
[Speaking for myself, not for Rethink Priorities.]
I think someone reading this thread might (incorrectly) think “Habryka is saying the research that these hires have produced hasn’t actually seemed useful. Peter agrees but emphasises that it’ll take longer for the researchers to produce stuff that’s more useful.” The real situation is simply that the people hired around November haven’t yet published any proper public write-ups (though there are things in the works that should be out in the coming months) - i.e., the situation isn’t that they published stuff that Habryka found non-useful.
Hopefully our upcoming first outputs will indeed seem useful!
(I’m not saying Habryka or Peter said incorrect things; I’m just making a guess as to how someone could’ve interpreted what Habryka said.)