Totally agree that many data points should go into evaluating political candidates. I haven’t taken a close look at your scoring system yet, but I’m glad you’re doing that work and think more in that direction would be helpful.
For this thread, I’ve been holding the frame of “Yang might be a uniquely compelling candidate to longtermist donors (given that most of his policies seem basically okay and he’s open to x-risk arguments).”
Totally agree that many data points should go into evaluating political candidates. I haven’t taken a close look at your scoring system yet, but I’m glad you’re doing that work and think more in that direction would be helpful.
For this thread, I’ve been holding the frame of “Yang might be a uniquely compelling candidate to longtermist donors (given that most of his policies seem basically okay and he’s open to x-risk arguments).”
If you read it, go by the 7th version as I linked in another comment here—most recent release.
I’m going to update on a single link from now on, so I don’t cause this confusion anymore.