Yep, I agree that for some organizations, optimizing for effectiveness will at certain times also mean that it’s right to optimize at least partially for diversity as an instrumental goal. I think that is true. If you set it yourself as a bottom-line for your organization, as a terminal goal that has to be achieved independently of the specific problems you face, it will of course trade off against your other goals. But it will not necessarily do so if you just uncover it as part of optimizing for your other goals, as a useful instrumental/intermediary goal, and it can of course be useful advice to make people aware of that.
I disagree that it would be good advice for most organizations to follow, but I think we’ve reached the part where I no longer have definite takes, but more guesses and hunches and models with large inferential distance, such that it isn’t obviously worth going into.
Yep, I agree that for some organizations, optimizing for effectiveness will at certain times also mean that it’s right to optimize at least partially for diversity as an instrumental goal. I think that is true. If you set it yourself as a bottom-line for your organization, as a terminal goal that has to be achieved independently of the specific problems you face, it will of course trade off against your other goals. But it will not necessarily do so if you just uncover it as part of optimizing for your other goals, as a useful instrumental/intermediary goal, and it can of course be useful advice to make people aware of that.
I disagree that it would be good advice for most organizations to follow, but I think we’ve reached the part where I no longer have definite takes, but more guesses and hunches and models with large inferential distance, such that it isn’t obviously worth going into.