To be clear, I agree that “vetting” isn’t the only key bottleneck or the only thing worth increasing or improving, and that things like having more good project ideas, better teams to implement them, more training and credentials, etc. can all be very useful too. And I think it’s useful to point this out.
In fact, my second section was itself only partly about vetting:
There are many orgs and funders who would be willing and able to hire or fund people to do such research if there were people who the orgs/funders could trust would do it well (and without requiring too much training or vetting). But not if the people are inexperienced, are choosing lower-priority questions, or are hard for orgs/funders to assess the skills of (see also EA is vetting-constrained and Ben Todd discussing organizational capacity, infrastructure, and management bottlenecks). [emphasis shifted]
(I also notice that some of your points sound more applicable to non-research careers. Such careers aren’t the focus of this sequence, though they’re of course important too, and I think some of my analysis is relevant to them too and it can be worth discussing them in the comments.)
To be clear, I agree that “vetting” isn’t the only key bottleneck or the only thing worth increasing or improving, and that things like having more good project ideas, better teams to implement them, more training and credentials, etc. can all be very useful too. And I think it’s useful to point this out.
In fact, my second section was itself only partly about vetting:
(I also notice that some of your points sound more applicable to non-research careers. Such careers aren’t the focus of this sequence, though they’re of course important too, and I think some of my analysis is relevant to them too and it can be worth discussing them in the comments.)