Unlike Harvard and Google, most AI safety orgs are not headcount limited accepting the top X candidates. They would happily accept more candiates. It's not a contradiction to have a high hiring bar and also be desperate to hire people above that bar.
Definitely could be useful for orgs to be more upfront about their hiring bars
Last I checked, the best estimates of the impact of direct subsidies on cost seemed to be around 1-2% of cost for beef and pork and less than that for chicken/eggs/milk. (Can't find this now, so lower credibility, but AI estimates seem to agree) Based on this, removing them would be great, but probably wouldn't be tractable enough compared to other interventions given the difficulty.
But EA orgs (in safety) are hungry to hire.
Unlike Harvard and Google, most AI safety orgs are not headcount limited accepting the top X candidates. They would happily accept more candiates. It's not a contradiction to have a high hiring bar and also be desperate to hire people above that bar.
Definitely could be useful for orgs to be more upfront about their hiring bars
Last I checked, the best estimates of the impact of direct subsidies on cost seemed to be around 1-2% of cost for beef and pork and less than that for chicken/eggs/milk. (Can't find this now, so lower credibility, but AI estimates seem to agree)
Based on this, removing them would be great, but probably wouldn't be tractable enough compared to other interventions given the difficulty.