Where is there info on hiring practices at FTX? I don’t remember seeing this and would be interested.
More generally, I would be really interested in hearing about particular examples of people being denied job opportunities in EA roles because of opinions they share on the EA Forum (this would worry me a lot).
The only rumor I’ve heard is that someone was once denied an opportunity because they were deemed not a longtermist and the only way the org could’ve known the person was not a longtermist was from their public writing, and I personally wasn’t sold that strongly holding longtermist values was a key requirement for the position. That being said, I’ve only heard it from the person who didn’t get hired and possible that I may be substantially misunderstanding the situation.
I definitely would like to hear other people’s views on this, from burner accounts if need be.
Huh, I feel mixed about this. I want there to be ways and places to just talk and not have an all things considered opinions and not be too strongly judged for it (and I know some people hold to a “what’s the best thing this person has done/said” standard rather than “what’s the quality of the average thing they said”), for epistemics and probably because it’s sensible in a bunch of ways, but it would also be confusing to me if people’s behavior on the public internet didn’t give evidence of the kind of employee they are or their views in ways that might matter? Maybe we’re just litigating how much of a grace buffer there should be (where maybe we agree it should be pretty big).
Where is there info on hiring practices at FTX? I don’t remember seeing this and would be interested.
More generally, I would be really interested in hearing about particular examples of people being denied job opportunities in EA roles because of opinions they share on the EA Forum (this would worry me a lot).
The only rumor I’ve heard is that someone was once denied an opportunity because they were deemed not a longtermist and the only way the org could’ve known the person was not a longtermist was from their public writing, and I personally wasn’t sold that strongly holding longtermist values was a key requirement for the position. That being said, I’ve only heard it from the person who didn’t get hired and possible that I may be substantially misunderstanding the situation.
I definitely would like to hear other people’s views on this, from burner accounts if need be.
Huh, I feel mixed about this. I want there to be ways and places to just talk and not have an all things considered opinions and not be too strongly judged for it (and I know some people hold to a “what’s the best thing this person has done/said” standard rather than “what’s the quality of the average thing they said”), for epistemics and probably because it’s sensible in a bunch of ways, but it would also be confusing to me if people’s behavior on the public internet didn’t give evidence of the kind of employee they are or their views in ways that might matter? Maybe we’re just litigating how much of a grace buffer there should be (where maybe we agree it should be pretty big).