it’s reasonable for people to have been updating in the “MIRI giving up” direction long before Death With Dignity.
Hmm I’m actually not as sure about this one—I think there was definitely a sense that MIRI was withdrawing to focus on research and focus less on collaboration, there was the whole “non-disclosed by default” thing, and I think a health experiment on Eliezer’s part ate a year or so of intellectual output, but like, I was involved in a bunch of attempts to actively hire people / find more researchers to work with MIRI up until around the start of COVID. [I left MIRI before COVID started, and so was much less in touch with MIRI in 2020 and 2021.]
Hmm I’m actually not as sure about this one—I think there was definitely a sense that MIRI was withdrawing to focus on research and focus less on collaboration, there was the whole “non-disclosed by default” thing, and I think a health experiment on Eliezer’s part ate a year or so of intellectual output, but like, I was involved in a bunch of attempts to actively hire people / find more researchers to work with MIRI up until around the start of COVID. [I left MIRI before COVID started, and so was much less in touch with MIRI in 2020 and 2021.]