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Luke Muehlhauser, or lukeprog, leaves MIRI and takes on a research position at Givewell.
Nate Soares, or So8res, takes over as executive director of MIRI.
The first thing I thought of was the clear advantages to putting Nate in that leadershippy position at the organisation, since he's a college graduate who used to work for google, which is reasonably high status (in a non-controversial, obvious to outsiders way compared to say, Luke/Eliezer's backgrounds).
The second thing I did was remember how huge Luke seemed to be for MIRI - the organisation really got its shit together under his executive direction.
Interesting news, anyhow. I wish everyone luck.
Luke: the wandering get-your-shit-together-er. Making organizations better since 2011.
Luke isn't joining GiveWell as a get-your-shit-together-er, though.
I can dream. After all 5% of my stipend goes straight to givewell.
Maybe he'll be a very effective researcher.
"I'm Luke Muehlhauser. I get your shit together." (semi-quote)
If he could establish such a reputation as a consultant for commercial organizations, I imagine he could make quite a lot of money to do EA with.