Good points and thanks for the question. One point to consider is that AISC publicly noted that they need more funding, which may have been a significant part of the reason that they were the most common donation recipient in the alignment survey. We also found that a small subset of the sample explicitly indicated they were involved with AISC (7 out of 124 participants). This is just to provide some additional context/potential explanation to what you note in your comment.
As we note in the post, we were generally cautious to exclude data from the analysis and opted to prioritize releasing the visualization/analysis tool that enables people sort and filter the data however they please. That way, we do not have to choose between findings like the ones you report about pause support x quantity of published work; both statistics you cite are interesting in their own right and should be considered by the community. We generally find though that the key results reported are robust to these sorts of filtering perturbations (let me know if you discover anything different!). Overall, ~80% of the alignment sample is currently receiving funding of some form to pursue their work, and ~75% have been doing this work for >1 year, which is the general population we are intending to sample.
Good points and thanks for the question. One point to consider is that AISC publicly noted that they need more funding, which may have been a significant part of the reason that they were the most common donation recipient in the alignment survey. We also found that a small subset of the sample explicitly indicated they were involved with AISC (7 out of 124 participants). This is just to provide some additional context/potential explanation to what you note in your comment.
As we note in the post, we were generally cautious to exclude data from the analysis and opted to prioritize releasing the visualization/analysis tool that enables people sort and filter the data however they please. That way, we do not have to choose between findings like the ones you report about pause support x quantity of published work; both statistics you cite are interesting in their own right and should be considered by the community. We generally find though that the key results reported are robust to these sorts of filtering perturbations (let me know if you discover anything different!). Overall, ~80% of the alignment sample is currently receiving funding of some form to pursue their work, and ~75% have been doing this work for >1 year, which is the general population we are intending to sample.