I asked a question on LessWrong recently that I’m curious for your thoughts on. If you don’t want to read the full text on LessWrong, the short version is: Do you think it has become harder recently (say 2013 vs 2019) to become a mathematician at MIRI? Why or why not?
I’m not sure; my guess is that it’s somewhat harder, because we’re enthusiastic about our new research directions and have moved some management capacity towards those, and those directions have relatively more room for engineering skillsets vs pure math skillsets.
I asked a question on LessWrong recently that I’m curious for your thoughts on. If you don’t want to read the full text on LessWrong, the short version is: Do you think it has become harder recently (say 2013 vs 2019) to become a mathematician at MIRI? Why or why not?
I’m not sure; my guess is that it’s somewhat harder, because we’re enthusiastic about our new research directions and have moved some management capacity towards those, and those directions have relatively more room for engineering skillsets vs pure math skillsets.