Do you see this area as limited to cases where participants in a decision are trying and failing to make “good” decisions by their own criteria (ie where incentives are aligned but performance isn’t there because of bad process or similar) or are you also thinking of cases where participants have divergent goals and suboptimal decisions from an EA standpoint are driven by conflict and misaligned incentives rather than by process failures?
Thanks for the comment rorty! It’s a really good question. I think the simple answer is that we don’t know at this stage. I don’t think it has to be the dichotomy you suggest though. A process could help individuals within a group align better and figure out what compromises they are happy to make. The question of whether we try to change people’s goals I think depends on how tractable it is and we also recognise that there is already considerable efforts in EA movement building which may better cover trying to change people’s goals. Thanks again.
Do you see this area as limited to cases where participants in a decision are trying and failing to make “good” decisions by their own criteria (ie where incentives are aligned but performance isn’t there because of bad process or similar) or are you also thinking of cases where participants have divergent goals and suboptimal decisions from an EA standpoint are driven by conflict and misaligned incentives rather than by process failures?
Thanks for the comment rorty! It’s a really good question. I think the simple answer is that we don’t know at this stage. I don’t think it has to be the dichotomy you suggest though. A process could help individuals within a group align better and figure out what compromises they are happy to make. The question of whether we try to change people’s goals I think depends on how tractable it is and we also recognise that there is already considerable efforts in EA movement building which may better cover trying to change people’s goals. Thanks again.