RAISE was a project that was aiming to build an online course for AI safety. It shut down because their attempt at a study didn't show any significant improvement, but I know that some people were sceptical of the project goal, not just its failure to achieve that. What was the worry here? Was it related to excessively growing the size of the field, the idea that anyone capable of significantly contributing wouldn't need an on-ramp, the choice of topics or something else?
Slightly odd phrasing here which I don't really understand, since I think the typical MIRI researcher is very good at what they do, and that most of them are atypically good researchers compared with the general population of researchers.
Do you mean instead "RAISE was oriented toward producing people who would be typical for an AI researcher in general"? Or do you mean that there are only minor benefits from additional researchers who are about as good as current MIRI researchers?