Why does CHAI exclude people who don’t have a near-perfect GPA? This doesn’t seem like a good way to maximize the amount of alignment work being done. High GPA won’t save the world and in fact selects for obedience to authority and years of status competition, leading to poor mental health to do work in, decreasing the total amount of cognitive resources being thrown at the problem.
(Hypothesis 1: “Yes, this is first-order bad but the second-order effect is we have one institutionally prestigious organization, and we need to say we have selective GPA in order to fit in and retain that prestige.” [Translator’s Note: “We must work with evil in order to do good.” (The evil being colleges and grades and most of the economic system.)])
(Hypothesis 2: “GPA is the most convenient way we found to select for intelligence and conscientiousness, and those are the traits we need the most.”)
(Hypothesis 3: “The university just literally requires us to do this or we’ll be shut down.”)
Why does CHAI exclude people who don’t have a near-perfect GPA? This doesn’t seem like a good way to maximize the amount of alignment work being done. High GPA won’t save the world and in fact selects for obedience to authority and years of status competition, leading to poor mental health to do work in, decreasing the total amount of cognitive resources being thrown at the problem.
(Hypothesis 1: “Yes, this is first-order bad but the second-order effect is we have one institutionally prestigious organization, and we need to say we have selective GPA in order to fit in and retain that prestige.” [Translator’s Note: “We must work with evil in order to do good.” (The evil being colleges and grades and most of the economic system.)])
(Hypothesis 2: “GPA is the most convenient way we found to select for intelligence and conscientiousness, and those are the traits we need the most.”)
(Hypothesis 3: “The university just literally requires us to do this or we’ll be shut down.”)
Won’t somebody think of the grad students!