Were you criticized for socializing with people outside MIRI/CFAR, especially with “rival groups”?
As a datapoint, while working at MIRI I started dating someone working at OpenAI, and never felt any pressure from MIRI people to drop the relationship (and he was welcomed at the MIRI events that we did, and so on), despite Eliezer’s tweets discussed here representing a pretty widespread belief at MIRI. (He wasn’t one of the founders, and I think people at MIRI saw a clear difference between “founding OpenAI” and “working at OpenAI given that it was founded”, so idk if they would agree with the frame that OpenAI was a ‘rival group’.)
As a datapoint, while working at MIRI I started dating someone working at OpenAI, and never felt any pressure from MIRI people to drop the relationship (and he was welcomed at the MIRI events that we did, and so on), despite Eliezer’s tweets discussed here representing a pretty widespread belief at MIRI. (He wasn’t one of the founders, and I think people at MIRI saw a clear difference between “founding OpenAI” and “working at OpenAI given that it was founded”, so idk if they would agree with the frame that OpenAI was a ‘rival group’.)