The reason compensation seems good is that it formalizes the duty of engaging with the community’s discourse, which probably pushes us further towards the above regime.
Right now, the community is basically banking on you & other fund managers caring a lot about engaging with the community. This is great, and it’s great that you do.
Layering on compensation seems like a way of bolstering this engagement. If someone is compensated to do this engagement, then there’s increased incentive for them to do it. (Though there’s probably some weirdness around Goodhart-ing here.)
Compensation is also good in case you ever retire and someone else with different financial needs takes over (but it doesn’t seem super important—there are other things you could solve first).
I think that makes sense but in practice is something that makes more sense to handle through their day jobs. (If they went the route of hiring someone for whom managing the fund was their actual day job I’d agree that generally higher salaries would be good, for mostly the same reason they’d be good across the board in EA)
Got it.
The reason compensation seems good is that it formalizes the duty of engaging with the community’s discourse, which probably pushes us further towards the above regime.
Right now, the community is basically banking on you & other fund managers caring a lot about engaging with the community. This is great, and it’s great that you do.
Layering on compensation seems like a way of bolstering this engagement. If someone is compensated to do this engagement, then there’s increased incentive for them to do it. (Though there’s probably some weirdness around Goodhart-ing here.)
cf. Role of ombudsperson in public governance
Compensation is also good in case you ever retire and someone else with different financial needs takes over (but it doesn’t seem super important—there are other things you could solve first).
I think that makes sense but in practice is something that makes more sense to handle through their day jobs. (If they went the route of hiring someone for whom managing the fund was their actual day job I’d agree that generally higher salaries would be good, for mostly the same reason they’d be good across the board in EA)