Wait, but it might actually have opportunity cost? Like those poeple could be doing something other than trying to get more medium sized donors? There is a cost to trying to push on this versus something else.
Most of the people working on giving platforms, are pretty uniquely passionate about giving. The donation platform team we have, isn’t that excited about EA-community building in general. This is a good, concrete example of one way a 0 sum model breaks down.
But, we can also go for those benefits directly without necessarily getting more donors. Like maybe trying to recruit more medium sized donors is the best way to community build, but this seems like sort of a specific claim which seems a priori unlikely (it could be true ofc) unless having more small donors is itself a substantial fraction of the value and that’s why it’s better than other options.
Just be clear, the mechanism I think at play here is A) Meeting people where they are B) Providing people with Autonomous ways to take action. These mechanisms are good for reaching a subset of people, and getting them engaged.
I am inlined to lean towards multiple axis of engagement, i.e. let’s promote prediction markets (including the gamification model that manifold uses) to reach people and get people engaged. Let’s throw intensive career discussions at those that would find that interesting. Likewise, let’s not forget about donations as an important part of participating in this community.
Most of the people working on giving platforms, are pretty uniquely passionate about giving. The donation platform team we have, isn’t that excited about EA-community building in general. This is a good, concrete example of one way a 0 sum model breaks down.
Just be clear, the mechanism I think at play here is A) Meeting people where they are B) Providing people with Autonomous ways to take action. These mechanisms are good for reaching a subset of people, and getting them engaged.
I am inlined to lean towards multiple axis of engagement, i.e. let’s promote prediction markets (including the gamification model that manifold uses) to reach people and get people engaged. Let’s throw intensive career discussions at those that would find that interesting. Likewise, let’s not forget about donations as an important part of participating in this community.