While I don’t want to go into discussing specific details, I want to make clear I don’t think ‘not writing something egregious in the forum’ is the standard which should be applied here.
I don’t think the original poster’s Forum history shows this. If you disagree, it’s probably important to figure out if the crux is you imagine a different bar, or you think the forum history provides little data / or positive data about meeting the bar I mean.
Since you’ve obviously thought a lot about this issue, it would be interesting to hear more about the extent to which your bar is dependent on the adjectives “funded” and/or “full-time.” Do you think the bar is significantly lower for a half-FTE, quarter-FTE, or expenses-only funding? I don’t mean with respect to the original poster, but more generally—especially in countries where the primary language is neither English nor another language with a significant amount of EA content.
While I don’t want to go into discussing specific details, I want to make clear I don’t think ‘not writing something egregious in the forum’ is the standard which should be applied here.
In my view, national-level groups are potentially important and good but need to be able to do a lot of complex work to be really successful. This means my bar for ‘who should do this as a funded full-time job’ is roughly similar to ‘who should work at median-impact roles at CEA’ or ‘work as a generalist at Rethink Priorities’ or similar.
I don’t think the original poster’s Forum history shows this. If you disagree, it’s probably important to figure out if the crux is you imagine a different bar, or you think the forum history provides little data / or positive data about meeting the bar I mean.
Since you’ve obviously thought a lot about this issue, it would be interesting to hear more about the extent to which your bar is dependent on the adjectives “funded” and/or “full-time.” Do you think the bar is significantly lower for a half-FTE, quarter-FTE, or expenses-only funding? I don’t mean with respect to the original poster, but more generally—especially in countries where the primary language is neither English nor another language with a significant amount of EA content.