I think Probably good is a great name. What are some other good names you have considered so far?
Does anyone have alternative ideas ?
My first understanding of the name was something like “this is a website that will help me have a career that will probably have a good impact”, where probably meant something like ~70%-ish. I thought this wasn’t very ambitious, but it also had something intriguing, so I felt curious to learn more.
I’d like my career to be (almost) guaranteed to have some good consequences. I think my odds of doing some good with my career if EA didn’t exist at all would be above 95%. (As many people interested in EA, I already wanted to do good when I discovered the movement.)
So I’d be even more interested in a website which can probably help me do even better than I would have done without its advice.
I’m not sure that “Probably better” would be a better name than “Probably good”. I feel like it preserves the modesty and the catchiness, while also making it sound a little more ambitious. It could also be in line with your experimental approach, trying to make the quality your advice better as you gain experience.
My initial intuition (stressing even more that this is based on no evidence but my best guess) is that the name “Probably Better” would be more confusing to people than “Probably Good”. I’m expecting a lot of people asking “better than what?”
It also loses the meaning of good as in moral good (which I like, but not everyone here did).
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I think Probably good is a great name. What are some other good names you have considered so far? Does anyone have alternative ideas ?
My first understanding of the name was something like “this is a website that will help me have a career that will probably have a good impact”, where probably meant something like ~70%-ish. I thought this wasn’t very ambitious, but it also had something intriguing, so I felt curious to learn more.
I’d like my career to be (almost) guaranteed to have some good consequences. I think my odds of doing some good with my career if EA didn’t exist at all would be above 95%. (As many people interested in EA, I already wanted to do good when I discovered the movement.)
So I’d be even more interested in a website which can probably help me do even better than I would have done without its advice.
I’m not sure that “Probably better” would be a better name than “Probably good”. I feel like it preserves the modesty and the catchiness, while also making it sound a little more ambitious. It could also be in line with your experimental approach, trying to make the quality your advice better as you gain experience.
What do you think ? :)
My initial intuition (stressing even more that this is based on no evidence but my best guess) is that the name “Probably Better” would be more confusing to people than “Probably Good”. I’m expecting a lot of people asking “better than what?”
It also loses the meaning of good as in moral good (which I like, but not everyone here did).