I’d be excited about a world where CEA posts generic costs+benefits of all of the big programs
Could you say more about what this looks like? In particular: are you suggesting that we pull together information that is already publicly available but spread out (e.g. metrics of how much we impact people are spread across various EA survey and OP LTist survey posts) versus publishing something which doesn’t already exist (e.g. our internal estimates of the dollar value we should assign to those survey results)?
Many of CEAs projects seem nicely split up. (Events, Community Health, Groups).
Costs
I could imagine a list of the money / counterfactual costs spent on each. A bit tricky, but doable. You’d have to include overhead, of course.
Benefits
Very simple models of the value of each project. These could be in some kind of relative value, so we could at least tell things like, “Project X seems to be more valuable in total than Project Y, though less efficient”
Even relatively simple versions of this could be illuminating and help for making consensus.
I’d be happy to put together a simple potential version of this if that could be useful. It could make sense for it to be private (within the org) for a while, maybe a long time, if you don’t have internal accounting like this already.
Thanks Ozzie!
Could you say more about what this looks like? In particular: are you suggesting that we pull together information that is already publicly available but spread out (e.g. metrics of how much we impact people are spread across various EA survey and OP LTist survey posts) versus publishing something which doesn’t already exist (e.g. our internal estimates of the dollar value we should assign to those survey results)?
Many of CEAs projects seem nicely split up. (Events, Community Health, Groups).
Costs
I could imagine a list of the money / counterfactual costs spent on each. A bit tricky, but doable. You’d have to include overhead, of course.
Benefits
Very simple models of the value of each project. These could be in some kind of relative value, so we could at least tell things like, “Project X seems to be more valuable in total than Project Y, though less efficient”
Even relatively simple versions of this could be illuminating and help for making consensus.
I’d be happy to put together a simple potential version of this if that could be useful. It could make sense for it to be private (within the org) for a while, maybe a long time, if you don’t have internal accounting like this already.
Yes this would be amazing! We’re trying to do something similar with EA Netherlands.