METR is bottlenecked on technical talent and is unable to conduct research on a large percentage of world-important problems they've identified, with one brainstorm session identifying 20-30 important unsolved problems but only having capacity to work on 1-3 of them.
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Joel BeckerEvidence Quote
“we are bottlenecked on, on technical talent... we were brainstorming, you know, 20, 30 of these what seemed like world important problems... And we are able to to, to conduct research on on how many of those problems. I think it's one to, you know, maybe if we do an extraordinary job this quarter, it might be three”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:03:24 PM
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