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Comment by randlet

19 hours ago

> The only power you have is to quit.

This is an incredible power when exercised en-masse.

--and then, all the decent people no longer work there, and it's like certain other careers populated entirely with psychopaths

  • Psychopaths tend to be dumb (but not always), and the smartest researchers that actually care about getting humanity to AGI tend to be safety conscious.

    This has been a huge talent advertisement for Anthropic. Their recruiting just got easier for the next 6 months.

And behind the quitting decision is very little safety net and usually substantial financial obligations keeping people handcuffed. Something has to give. The power employees had during covid was the way it should be, or something more closely approximating that.