Hey just want to weigh in here that you can’t divide our FTE by our total publication count, since that doesn’t include a large amount of work we’ve produced that is not able to be made public or is not yet public but will be. Right now I think a majority of our output is not public right now for one reason or another, though we’re working on finding routes to make more of it public.
I do think your general point though that the per-post cost of a contest post is less / much less than an RP post is accurate though.
BTW, I hope it doesn’t seem like it was picking on you—it just occurred to me that I could do math for Rethink Priorities because your salaries are public. I have no reason to believe a cost-per-public-report estimate would be different for any other randomly chosen EA research organization in either direction. And of course most EA organizations correctly focus on making a positive impact rather than maximizing publication count.
Hey just want to weigh in here that you can’t divide our FTE by our total publication count, since that doesn’t include a large amount of work we’ve produced that is not able to be made public or is not yet public but will be. Right now I think a majority of our output is not public right now for one reason or another, though we’re working on finding routes to make more of it public.
I do think your general point though that the per-post cost of a contest post is less / much less than an RP post is accurate though.
-Peter (Co-CEO of Rethink Priorities)
Thanks for the correction!
BTW, I hope it doesn’t seem like it was picking on you—it just occurred to me that I could do math for Rethink Priorities because your salaries are public. I have no reason to believe a cost-per-public-report estimate would be different for any other randomly chosen EA research organization in either direction. And of course most EA organizations correctly focus on making a positive impact rather than maximizing publication count.