I applied for a MIRI job in 2020. Here's what happened next. |
2022-06-15 |
Viktoria Malyasova |
LessWrong |
Machine Intelligence Research Institute |
Buck Shlegeris, Anna Salamon |
Job application experience |
AI safety |
As a response to Rob Bensinger asking what MIRI could do to improve hiring, Viktoria Malyasova, in an attempt to give feedback, writes about her mostly negative experience applying for a MIRI job in 2020. Viktoria recounts from her early steps in the application while in Russia, then describes a long, conflictive process, and a final rejection. Much of the recounted experience involves Buck Shlegeris. Finally, Viktoria explains her reasons why she is against against meta-honesty |