I agree. Musk showed us that you can cut head count at a tech company by 90 percent and everything turns out fine. If we truly care about cost effectiveness we should do the same for tech-focused EA orgs like LessWrong, EA Forum, Ought, MIRI, ARC and Redwood. Anthropic comes to mind as another example.
Ideally all EAs should fear for their jobs—this fear will encourage them to work harder. It’s well known that EA jobs are competitive with many applicants. If they can’t handle the pressure, we can replace them with others who can.
I agree. Musk showed us that you can cut head count at a tech company by 90 percent and everything turns out fine. If we truly care about cost effectiveness we should do the same for tech-focused EA orgs like LessWrong, EA Forum, Ought, MIRI, ARC and Redwood. Anthropic comes to mind as another example.
Ideally all EAs should fear for their jobs—this fear will encourage them to work harder. It’s well known that EA jobs are competitive with many applicants. If they can’t handle the pressure, we can replace them with others who can.