There’s a difference between motivated to goodhard performance metrics and sending loyalty signals and being motivated to do what’s good for the companies mission.
If we take OpenAI, there were likely people smart enough to know that stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice was going to be bad for OpenAI. Sam Altman however wanted to do it in his vanity and opposing the project would have sent bad loyalty signals.
There’s a lot that software engineers do where the effects aren’t easy to measure, so being motivated to help the mission and not only reach performance metrics can be important.
There’s a difference between motivated to goodhard performance metrics and sending loyalty signals and being motivated to do what’s good for the companies mission.
If we take OpenAI, there were likely people smart enough to know that stealing Scarlett Johansson’s voice was going to be bad for OpenAI. Sam Altman however wanted to do it in his vanity and opposing the project would have sent bad loyalty signals.
There’s a lot that software engineers do where the effects aren’t easy to measure, so being motivated to help the mission and not only reach performance metrics can be important.