Furthermore, I’m not sure the information value alone was worth the millions spent on this campaign by the EA community. The ‘lessons learned’ listed in this forum post seem obvious.
The post author doesn’t say anything about having a special connection to the campaign. I assume the “value of information” argument is that campaign staff/insiders gained knowledge they couldn’t have gotten otherwise, and I’m not sure this post would shed much light on that argument either way.
As a relatively trivial example of learning not available from a Google search: the campaign presumably learned things like how many people would show up to make calls, how much money they could raise, etc.
The post author doesn’t say anything about having a special connection to the campaign. I assume the “value of information” argument is that campaign staff/insiders gained knowledge they couldn’t have gotten otherwise, and I’m not sure this post would shed much light on that argument either way.
As a relatively trivial example of learning not available from a Google search: the campaign presumably learned things like how many people would show up to make calls, how much money they could raise, etc.