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Kabir Kumar

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i messed things up a lot in organizing the moonshot program. working hard to make sure the future events will be much better. lots of things i can do.

The reasons for this and what I'm going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again:
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- Promised that the first 300 applicants would be guaranteed personalized feedback. Thought that I could delegate to other, more technical members of the team for this.
However, it turned out that in order to give useful feedback and to be able to judge if someone was a good fit for the program, a person didn't just need technical knowledge - they needed good communication skills, an understanding of what's needed for alignment research, being consistently available... (read more)

5Cole Wyeth1y

Guaranteeing personalized feedback for 300 people does seem like a massive burden.

1Luiza1y

Depending on what the application involved, would it work to anon them, make them public and sort of let the community give feedback?

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