Jenba's Quick takes — EA Forum

A collection of shorter posts by EA Forum user Jen baik

Comments 21 Sorted by New & upvoted 86 4 more 15 Do you think the marketing is false because: The roles are getting more than enough qualified, competent applicants? The cause area of AI safety is saturated with talent? AI safety is not impactful enough to justify claims like "this cause area is particularly important to scale"? I'm not sure the analogies to Google or Harvard are useful here. These organizations are driven by profits/enrollments, not by impact. They likely are far less picky than AI safety orgs because they are very big and don't require the incredibly niche…

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