Yes, admittedly, there is much less strain on being very good at philosophy of science if you are going to work within a team with a clear agenda, particularly within AGI lab where the research agendas tend to be much more empirical than in “academic” orgs like MIRI or ARC. And thinking about research strategy is not the job of non-leading researchers at these orgs either, whereas independent researcher or researchers at more boutique labs have to think about their strategies by themselves. Founders of new orgs and labs have to think about their strategies very hard, too.
But preparing employees for OpenAI, Antrhopic, or DeepMind is clearly not the singular focus of SERI MATS.
Yes, admittedly, there is much less strain on being very good at philosophy of science if you are going to work within a team with a clear agenda, particularly within AGI lab where the research agendas tend to be much more empirical than in “academic” orgs like MIRI or ARC. And thinking about research strategy is not the job of non-leading researchers at these orgs either, whereas independent researcher or researchers at more boutique labs have to think about their strategies by themselves. Founders of new orgs and labs have to think about their strategies very hard, too.
But preparing employees for OpenAI, Antrhopic, or DeepMind is clearly not the singular focus of SERI MATS.