Thanks for posting this. I thought it was well-considered with lots of good brainstroming of options for valuable policy/system change, so am happy you’re joining the community! I think 3 is a particularly interesting idea. I think the EA community is far too large and independent to get to 80% agreement of EAs endorsing something, but there may be some way of surveying EAs in relevant fields for each of your policy proposals. It seems probably valuable to me to get politically-interested EAs to have in-depth knowledge on certain areas, although I think this could be broader than your suggestion of specific policies, and could be more like ‘lean into this area because it seems possible to have extra-large positive impact to others’ rather than going in with the aim of advocating for a specific policy. In my opinion, I’d probably endorse the main areas being those listed by 80k here—but seems like there’s room for these to be challenged by new particularly policy-relevant areas.
I recommend this post about US policy careers and this post about longterm sustainability and growth in developing countries which argue some similar things and some different things to you!
I would probably add animal welfare too to your list of issues most commonly championed in EA (but note there are plenty more causes that various people within EA are passionate about).
Thanks for posting this. I thought it was well-considered with lots of good brainstroming of options for valuable policy/system change, so am happy you’re joining the community! I think 3 is a particularly interesting idea. I think the EA community is far too large and independent to get to 80% agreement of EAs endorsing something, but there may be some way of surveying EAs in relevant fields for each of your policy proposals. It seems probably valuable to me to get politically-interested EAs to have in-depth knowledge on certain areas, although I think this could be broader than your suggestion of specific policies, and could be more like ‘lean into this area because it seems possible to have extra-large positive impact to others’ rather than going in with the aim of advocating for a specific policy. In my opinion, I’d probably endorse the main areas being those listed by 80k here—but seems like there’s room for these to be challenged by new particularly policy-relevant areas.
I recommend this post about US policy careers and this post about longterm sustainability and growth in developing countries which argue some similar things and some different things to you!
I would probably add animal welfare too to your list of issues most commonly championed in EA (but note there are plenty more causes that various people within EA are passionate about).