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by RamblingCTO
1074 days ago
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I think the section about why we should trust the project founder is quite funny. Something like "I did video games and stuff". And MIRI is AI, operations lead sounds like administration? So no relevant experience. While I can respect someone doing a moonshot, really I do, but maybe, just maybe get someone with relevant experience on board? I'd love to see this happen, but this doesn't help their case imho. -I spent five years at MIRI as Operations Lead.
-I produce a video game that's #42 in category on Patreon, with an 11-person team, making six-figures with >1,000,000 downloads.
-I run Heist and Geist and Heist: Sunlit Forge; welcometotheheist.com
-I'm nominated for the Nebula for fiction, and was published in Asterisk three days ago under the name Jamie Wahls.
-I run Aella's media empire. |
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Well, that is a unique thing to put on your resume.
But you're right, and I'm saying this as a person who'd easily fall for the halo problem after the MIRI mention. Pausing for a moment, all the list you quoted tells me is that the person is most likely clearer-thinking and smarter than average, is likely to be "nerdy" in exactly the way I'd hope people running a biotech project like this, and hangs out with people even smarter and nerdier in the way I like[0] -- alas, it also tells me he has little to offer in terms of relevant scientific, technological, or product qualifications.
Sure, he seems qualified for a leader/manager (and he's definitely not afraid of holding a PR equivalent of a live grenade), but the first step I'd expect of him is, as you say, to "get someone with relevant experience on board". Preferably more than one. Being a certain type of nerd may help to inspire people, but vision is no substitute for actual experience in biotech.
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[0] - Which I realize may be less of an indicator of domain competence, and more of my bias towards like-minded people.