While I donāt work in GHD, I still enjoy reading GHD content on the Forum and on Substack. I agree that interesting questions in GHD are far from solved, but I wonder if a lot of the low-hanging intellectual fruit has been picked (your number 5)? I wasnāt around in early GiveWell days but I imagine that would have been an amazing time to be thinking about GHD and coming up with lots of new approaches and ideas. I havenāt found GiveWellās research to be that surprising or interesting lately for instance (vibes-based, I donāt engage that closely with them anymore).
I would be keen to hear more from CE charities about what things they are learning and what questions they are facing!
Re your solution #2, I think I probably wouldnāt want the Forum team to show āfavouritismā, but the decline of GHD curated posts is interesting, and maybe that should change.
That all makes sense. You are right that all of these have been discussed before on one level, but thereās so so much to get into I still feel weāve barely scratched the surface of many of these
- The value of orgs that do one thing vs. those that do many (GiveWell funds both somewhat evenly) - How AI will transform of GHD - Growth/āDevelopment strategies vs. Randomista stuff - Wellbeing vs. other measures - āHits based approachā vs. more solid research - Support of Govt. vs. Vertical solutions
Yeah I agree Iād love to hear more from CE charities, they are surprisingly silent on the forum! Re solution 2, have changed the post on that one
Maybe its up to people like me to convince people like you that its still interesting, will keep that it mind :)
It does seem like some of the āseriousā GHD discussion is moving off the forum, e.g. later today Iām attending this online workshop (more info) that touches on your 3rd bullet. This seems part of the wider trend of decision-influencing discussion becoming internalised due to the professionalisation of EA GHD, which probably absorbed some of the best early commenters into these orgs. Holdenās 2014 writeup on the challenges of transparency seems loosely related if not exactly the same.
Maybe a fortnightly poll on each of those X vs Y topics? Or more cross-posting from GHD substacks like yours, Hannah Ritchieās, David Nashās, Lant Pritchettās etc.
While I donāt work in GHD, I still enjoy reading GHD content on the Forum and on Substack. I agree that interesting questions in GHD are far from solved, but I wonder if a lot of the low-hanging intellectual fruit has been picked (your number 5)? I wasnāt around in early GiveWell days but I imagine that would have been an amazing time to be thinking about GHD and coming up with lots of new approaches and ideas. I havenāt found GiveWellās research to be that surprising or interesting lately for instance (vibes-based, I donāt engage that closely with them anymore).
I would be keen to hear more from CE charities about what things they are learning and what questions they are facing!
Re your solution #2, I think I probably wouldnāt want the Forum team to show āfavouritismā, but the decline of GHD curated posts is interesting, and maybe that should change.
That all makes sense. You are right that all of these have been discussed before on one level, but thereās so so much to get into I still feel weāve barely scratched the surface of many of these
- The value of orgs that do one thing vs. those that do many (GiveWell funds both somewhat evenly)
- How AI will transform of GHD
- Growth/āDevelopment strategies vs. Randomista stuff
- Wellbeing vs. other measures
- āHits based approachā vs. more solid research
- Support of Govt. vs. Vertical solutions
Yeah I agree Iād love to hear more from CE charities, they are surprisingly silent on the forum! Re solution 2, have changed the post on that one
Maybe its up to people like me to convince people like you that its still interesting, will keep that it mind :)
It does seem like some of the āseriousā GHD discussion is moving off the forum, e.g. later today Iām attending this online workshop (more info) that touches on your 3rd bullet. This seems part of the wider trend of decision-influencing discussion becoming internalised due to the professionalisation of EA GHD, which probably absorbed some of the best early commenters into these orgs. Holdenās 2014 writeup on the challenges of transparency seems loosely related if not exactly the same.
Maybe a fortnightly poll on each of those X vs Y topics? Or more cross-posting from GHD substacks like yours, Hannah Ritchieās, David Nashās, Lant Pritchettās etc.