From my perspective 9 (scaling fast) makes perfect sense since Conjecture is aiming to stay “slightly behind state of the art”, and that requires engineering power.
I’m pretty skeptical they can achieve that right now using CoEm given the limited progress I expect them to have made on CoEm. And in my opinion of greater importance than “slightly behind state of the art” is likely security culture, and commonly in the startup world it is found that too-fast scaling leads to degradation in the founding culture. So a fear would be that fast scaling would lead to worse info-sec.
However, I don’t know to what extent this is an issue. I can certainly imagine a world where because of EA and LessWrong, many very mission-aligned hires are lining up in front of their door. I can also imagine a lot of other things, which is why I’m confused.
From my perspective 9 (scaling fast) makes perfect sense since Conjecture is aiming to stay “slightly behind state of the art”, and that requires engineering power.
I’m pretty skeptical they can achieve that right now using CoEm given the limited progress I expect them to have made on CoEm. And in my opinion of greater importance than “slightly behind state of the art” is likely security culture, and commonly in the startup world it is found that too-fast scaling leads to degradation in the founding culture. So a fear would be that fast scaling would lead to worse info-sec.
However, I don’t know to what extent this is an issue. I can certainly imagine a world where because of EA and LessWrong, many very mission-aligned hires are lining up in front of their door. I can also imagine a lot of other things, which is why I’m confused.