Funding Climate Incentivizes Technical Work Over Social Impact
evijit · x · 2026-08-20
Evijit points out that the current funding climate incentivizes technical work, causing people to frame their work in a way that makes it insular from longstanding non-technical societal impact work. He also adds that transparency/documentation work is generally not considered worthy of long-term support, despite being significantly more onerous than small, easily digestible technical safety papers.
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