Lots of discussion, a reasonable amount of new information, but what should our final update be:
Have HLI acted fine or badly?
Is there a pattern of misquoting and bad scholarship?
Have global health orgs in general moved towards Self-reported WellBeing (SWB) as a way to measure interventions?
Has HLI generally done good/cost effective work?
I think that the forum comments model is very poor at this. After all, if there were widespread agreement (as I think there could be) then I think that would be a load of all our minds. We could have a discussion once and then not need to have it again.
As it is, I’m sure many people have taken away different things from this and I we’ll probably discsuss it again the next time the Happier Lives Institute or StrongMinds posts to the forum and I guess there has been some more bad blood created in the meantime.
Consensus is good and we don’t even try to reach it after big discussions.
We are good at discussion but bad at finding the new thing to update to.
Look at the recent Happier Lives Institute discussion; https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/g4QWGj3JFLiKRyxZe/the-happier-lives-institute-is-funding-constrained-and-needs
Lots of discussion, a reasonable amount of new information, but what should our final update be:
Have HLI acted fine or badly?
Is there a pattern of misquoting and bad scholarship?
Have global health orgs in general moved towards Self-reported WellBeing (SWB) as a way to measure interventions?
Has HLI generally done good/cost effective work?
I think that the forum comments model is very poor at this. After all, if there were widespread agreement (as I think there could be) then I think that would be a load of all our minds. We could have a discussion once and then not need to have it again.
As it is, I’m sure many people have taken away different things from this and I we’ll probably discsuss it again the next time the Happier Lives Institute or StrongMinds posts to the forum and I guess there has been some more bad blood created in the meantime.
Consensus is good and we don’t even try to reach it after big discussions.