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Agreed. Org stuff is important, but even the most well-managed org in the world won't make good progress without the right technical people.

I have a really hard time believing that Defense has a strong bench of IC engineers and scientists working on ML Safety. I've received job offers from these types of firms and they're always paying at least 300K less than the competition when they probably need to be paying 200K-300K more (requires a clearance, WFH is impossible, my executive is not technical, etc.)