Moderation of the boards, to point-out misrepresentations and fallacies, would put it on par with the philosophy message board I moderated in the 90s. New folks shouldn’t have to defend themselves from EA regulars’ misrepresentations.
And, the selection of judges seems an arcane cabal… did you notice the irony, that your own, privately selected judges are the ones who determine if critique of themselves is valid? That’s equivalent to being “judge in your own trial”.
I also fear that, by offering a prize to the ‘best’, you are then able to disregard all those who ‘didn’t make the prize-threshold’. You gave only two months for it, while other organizations have a suggestion box that is always available, without judges dismissing all but the ‘best’.
Oh, darn—I can’t tell you this stuff, because you had already closed the contest by the time word of it had trickled to me.
Maybe interesting. A friend writing a draft asked me for some posts for background.
Here are posts that came to mind from the top of my head (do suggest posts I missed):
Blindspots:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DxfpGi9hwvwLCf5iQ/objections-to-value-alignment-between-effective-altruists
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LJwGdex4nn76iA8xy/some-blindspots-in-rationality-and-effective-altruism
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pxALB46SEkwNbfiNS/the-motivated-reasoning-critique-of-effective-altruism
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rpFjPmCL4tcfBic6a/effective-altruism-is-self-recommending
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AqpFkoq3oSEvsqker/milan-griffes-on-ea-blindspots
Diversity:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rb5YDEk3zej3HF5bg/ea-diversity-unpacking-pandora-s-box
Policy:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Q7qzxhwEWeKC3uzK3/managing-risk-in-the-ea-policy-space
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cDdcNzyizzdZD4hbR/critique-of-openphil-s-macroeconomic-policy-advocacy
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9WxdtLEfEDJfBAruX/are-we-actually-improving-decision-making
Jobs:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jmbP9rwXncfa32seH/after-one-year-of-applying-for-ea-jobs-it-is-really-really
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PbtXD76m7axMd6QST/the-funnel-or-the-individual-two-approaches-to-understanding
Organisation: -https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oNY76m8DDWFiLo7nH/what-to-do-with-people
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/KmondPMrgZ2ctKnP4/a-framework-for-assessing-the-potential-of-ea-development-in-1 - https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YKEPXLQhYjm3nP7Td/ways-money-can-make-things-worse
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wHyy9fuATeFPkHSDk/how-x-risk-projects-are-different-from-startups
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/by8u954PjM2ctcve7/experimental-longtermism-theory-needs-data
Of organisations: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/criticism-of-effective-altruist-organizations
Moderation of the boards, to point-out misrepresentations and fallacies, would put it on par with the philosophy message board I moderated in the 90s. New folks shouldn’t have to defend themselves from EA regulars’ misrepresentations.
And, the selection of judges seems an arcane cabal… did you notice the irony, that your own, privately selected judges are the ones who determine if critique of themselves is valid? That’s equivalent to being “judge in your own trial”.
I also fear that, by offering a prize to the ‘best’, you are then able to disregard all those who ‘didn’t make the prize-threshold’. You gave only two months for it, while other organizations have a suggestion box that is always available, without judges dismissing all but the ‘best’.
Oh, darn—I can’t tell you this stuff, because you had already closed the contest by the time word of it had trickled to me.