This seems generally applicable. Any significant money transaction includes expectations, both legible and il-, which some participants will classify as bullshit. Those holding the expectations may believe it to be legitimately useful, or semi-legitimately necessary due to lack of perfect alignment.
If you want to specify a bit, we can probably guess at why it’s being required.
What I liked about applying for VC funding was the specific questions.
“How is this going to make money?”
“What proof do you have this is going to make money”
and it being clear the bullshit that they wanted was numbers, testimonials from paying customers, unambiguous ways the product was actually better, etc. And then standard bs about progress, security, avoiding weird wibbly wobbly talk, ‘woke’, ‘safety’, etc.
With Alignment funders, they really obviously have language they’re looking for as well, or language that makes them more and less willing to put more effort into understanding the proposal. Actually, they have it more than the VCs. But they act as if they don’t.
Have you felt this from your own experience trying to get funding, or from others, or both? Also, I’m curious what you think is their specific kind of bullshit, and if there’s things you think are real but others thought to be bullshit.
it’s so unnecessarily hard to get funding in alignment.
they say ‘Don’t Bullshit’ but what that actually means is ‘Only do our specific kind of bullshit’.
and they don’t specify because they want to pretend that they don’t have their own bullshit
This seems generally applicable. Any significant money transaction includes expectations, both legible and il-, which some participants will classify as bullshit. Those holding the expectations may believe it to be legitimately useful, or semi-legitimately necessary due to lack of perfect alignment.
If you want to specify a bit, we can probably guess at why it’s being required.
What I liked about applying for VC funding was the specific questions.
“How is this going to make money?”
“What proof do you have this is going to make money”
and it being clear the bullshit that they wanted was numbers, testimonials from paying customers, unambiguous ways the product was actually better, etc. And then standard bs about progress, security, avoiding weird wibbly wobbly talk, ‘woke’, ‘safety’, etc.
With Alignment funders, they really obviously have language they’re looking for as well, or language that makes them more and less willing to put more effort into understanding the proposal. Actually, they have it more than the VCs. But they act as if they don’t.
Have you felt this from your own experience trying to get funding, or from others, or both? Also, I’m curious what you think is their specific kind of bullshit, and if there’s things you think are real but others thought to be bullshit.
Both. Not sure, its something like lesswrong/EA speak mixed with the VC speak.