--and then, all the decent people no longer work there, and it's like certain other careers populated entirely with psychopaths
Psychopaths tend to be dumb (but not always), and the smartest researchers that actually care about getting humanity to AGI tend to be safety conscious.
This has been a huge talent advertisement for Anthropic. Their recruiting just got easier for the next 6 months.
Wouldn't staying feel like implicitly condoning the actions of the "psychopaths"?