I think that they were mentioning that they loved recruiting because it leads them to work with extremely interesting people, but that it’s hard to find them. Given that my goal was explicitly to be recruited, and that I didn’t have any answers yet, it was extremely awkward for me. I can’t state explicitly why, after all I didn’t have to add anything to their remark.
Reading this, it sounds to me like the bad thing here might have been the unintentional implication that people who are not hired by MIRI are not extremely interesting people. I’m sure that’s not what they meant, but it’s understandable that that might be awkward!
Reading this, it sounds to me like the bad thing here might have been the unintentional implication that people who are not hired by MIRI are not extremely interesting people. I’m sure that’s not what they meant, but it’s understandable that that might be awkward!