AI Use Note: Main body text entirely human written. Claude (Opus 4.8) helped develop models of animal life histories in the appendix.
Cross-posted from Good Structures.
Executive Summary
* Animal advocates sometimes make claims like “there are X of this animal...
Adapted from my Substack, Funding Anthropalypse.
Short version: if you want a share of the coming Anthropic and OpenAI windfall - the $37bn+ that could be in play next year - the way in is to become 'legibly excellent', so the evaluators and donors that frontier lab staff already trust point them to yo...
Disclaimer: Although I work on the Groups Team at CEA, I’m writing this in a personal capacity, and this post does not constitute an endorsement by CEA.
Agency - the realisation that you really can just do things.
TL;DR
Biosecurity needs people (of any background) who are agentic and have a high execution velocity and track record....
Word note: beware the mind-killing phrase “meritocracy”. It was designed by someone who was opposed to meritocracy. Its purpose is to intentionally confuse “the best students should study physics” and “the best students should rule”. The -crat ending is sinister and vague. A better phrase is “determined by ability“ / “chosen by ability” / or your favorite non -ocracy word.
After long experience and experimentation I have high confidence in this.