they have to go through a 4-8 year training process that you have to pay year’s worth of salary to go to
They go through a 4-8 year credentialing process that is a costly and hard-to-Goodhart signal of intelligence, conscientiousness, and obedience. The actual learning is incidental.
The traditional way has its costs and benefits (one insanely wasteful and expensive path that opens up lots of opportunities), as does the MIRI way (a somewhat time-consuming path that opens up a single opportunity). It seems like there’s room for improvement in both, but both are obviously much closer to each other than either one is to Scientology, and that was the absurd comparison I was arguing against in my original comment. And that comparison doesn’t get any less absurd just because getting a computer science degree is a qualification for a lot of things.
Sure it does. I was saying that the traditional pathway is pretty ridiculous and onerous. (And I was saying that to argue that MIRI’s onerous application requirements are more like the traditional pathway and less like Scientology; I am objecting to the hyperbole in calling it the latter.) The response was that the traditional pathway is even more ridiculous and wasteful than I was giving it credit for. So yeah, I’d say that slightly strengthens my argument.
They go through a 4-8 year credentialing process that is a costly and hard-to-Goodhart signal of intelligence, conscientiousness, and obedience. The actual learning is incidental.
Okay, edited. If anything, that strengthens my point.
See this comment.
… And? What point do you think I’m arguing?
The traditional way has its costs and benefits (one insanely wasteful and expensive path that opens up lots of opportunities), as does the MIRI way (a somewhat time-consuming path that opens up a single opportunity). It seems like there’s room for improvement in both, but both are obviously much closer to each other than either one is to Scientology, and that was the absurd comparison I was arguing against in my original comment. And that comparison doesn’t get any less absurd just because getting a computer science degree is a qualification for a lot of things.
No, it doesn’t.
Sure it does. I was saying that the traditional pathway is pretty ridiculous and onerous. (And I was saying that to argue that MIRI’s onerous application requirements are more like the traditional pathway and less like Scientology; I am objecting to the hyperbole in calling it the latter.) The response was that the traditional pathway is even more ridiculous and wasteful than I was giving it credit for. So yeah, I’d say that slightly strengthens my argument.