The main consideration is whether I will have better and/or higher impact safety research there (at Anthropic I will have a different research environment, with other research styles, perspectives, and opportunities, which I may find better). I will also consider indirect impact (e.g. I might be indirectly helping Anthropic instead of another organization gain influence, unclear sign) and personal (non-financial) stuff. I’m not very comfortable sharing more at the moment, but I have a big Google doc that I have shared with some people I trust.
Makes sense— I think the thing I’m trying to point at is “what do you think better safety research actually looks like?”
I suspect there’s some risk that, absent some sort of pre-registrarion, your definition of “good safety research” ends up gradually drifting to be more compatible with the kind of research Anthropic does.
Of course, not all of this will be a bad thing— hopefully you will genuinely learn some new things that change your opinion of what “good research” is.
But the nice thing about pre-registration is that you can be more confident that belief changes are stemming from a deliberate or at least self-aware process, as opposed to some sort of “maybe I thought this all along//i didn’t really know what i believed before I joined” vibe. (and perhaps this is sufficiently covered in your doc)
The main consideration is whether I will have better and/or higher impact safety research there (at Anthropic I will have a different research environment, with other research styles, perspectives, and opportunities, which I may find better). I will also consider indirect impact (e.g. I might be indirectly helping Anthropic instead of another organization gain influence, unclear sign) and personal (non-financial) stuff. I’m not very comfortable sharing more at the moment, but I have a big Google doc that I have shared with some people I trust.
Makes sense— I think the thing I’m trying to point at is “what do you think better safety research actually looks like?”
I suspect there’s some risk that, absent some sort of pre-registrarion, your definition of “good safety research” ends up gradually drifting to be more compatible with the kind of research Anthropic does.
Of course, not all of this will be a bad thing— hopefully you will genuinely learn some new things that change your opinion of what “good research” is.
But the nice thing about pre-registration is that you can be more confident that belief changes are stemming from a deliberate or at least self-aware process, as opposed to some sort of “maybe I thought this all along//i didn’t really know what i believed before I joined” vibe. (and perhaps this is sufficiently covered in your doc)