Minor nitpick but I don’t think any of the organizers were running it full-time. I know of three who were close to that level, but the full-time ops people do ops for multiple orgs and the full-time alignment people spend some time doing alignment research, not just running HAIST.
But you are right that HAIST has lots of organizers and tons of programs, and I’d go as far as to say it’s probably the best place in the world to be a first-year college student interested in learning about alignment right now. The only downside is that there aren’t a lot of professional alignment researchers, but that problem exists everywhere. Perhaps Berkeley (specifically CHAI) is better in that regard.
Minor nitpick but I don’t think any of the organizers were running it full-time. I know of three who were close to that level, but the full-time ops people do ops for multiple orgs and the full-time alignment people spend some time doing alignment research, not just running HAIST.
But you are right that HAIST has lots of organizers and tons of programs, and I’d go as far as to say it’s probably the best place in the world to be a first-year college student interested in learning about alignment right now. The only downside is that there aren’t a lot of professional alignment researchers, but that problem exists everywhere. Perhaps Berkeley (specifically CHAI) is better in that regard.