Knowing the basis of ACE’s evaluations is of course essential to deciding whether to donate to/through them and I’d be surprised if esantorella disagreed. It’s just that this post and discussion is not only or even mostly about that. In my view, it would have been a far more valuable/better post if it were focused more tightly on that serious issue and the evidence for and against it, and left out altogether small issues like publishing and taking down bad blog posts, and the general discourse norms discussion was in a separate post labelled appropriately.
Makes sense. I think the current issues discussed feel like the best evidence we have, and do we feel like pretty substantial evidence on this topic, but it doesn’t seem necessary to discuss that fully here.
Knowing the basis of ACE’s evaluations is of course essential to deciding whether to donate to/through them and I’d be surprised if esantorella disagreed. It’s just that this post and discussion is not only or even mostly about that. In my view, it would have been a far more valuable/better post if it were focused more tightly on that serious issue and the evidence for and against it, and left out altogether small issues like publishing and taking down bad blog posts, and the general discourse norms discussion was in a separate post labelled appropriately.
Makes sense. I think the current issues discussed feel like the best evidence we have, and do we feel like pretty substantial evidence on this topic, but it doesn’t seem necessary to discuss that fully here.