There are a few people in this list who I think are being counted incorrectly as FTEs (Mati and Andrei, for example).
I would also be careful about making inferences based on timing of supposed signature: I have heard that the signature Google Doc had crashed and so the process for adding names was slow and cumbersome. That is, the time at which someone’s name was added may have been significantly after they expressed desire to sign.
And while failure to sign isn’t proof of lack of desire to sign, the two are heavily correlated—otherwise it would be incredibly unlikely for the small Superalignment team to have so many members who signed late or not at all.
There are a few people in this list who I think are being counted incorrectly as FTEs (Mati and Andrei, for example).
I would also be careful about making inferences based on timing of supposed signature: I have heard that the signature Google Doc had crashed and so the process for adding names was slow and cumbersome. That is, the time at which someone’s name was added may have been significantly after they expressed desire to sign.
Mati described himself as a TPM since September 2023 (after being PM support since April 2022), and Andrei described himself as a Research Engineer from April 2023 to March 2024. Why do you believe either was not a FTE at the time?
And while failure to sign isn’t proof of lack of desire to sign, the two are heavily correlated—otherwise it would be incredibly unlikely for the small Superalignment team to have so many members who signed late or not at all.