~10-100 Q: The Global Priorities Institute’s Research Agenda.
~100-1000+ Q: A New York Times Bestseller on a valuable topic, like Superintelligence (cited 2,651 times), or Thinking Fast and Slow (cited 30,439 times.)
This spans six orders of magnitude (1 to 1,000,000 mQ), but I do find that my intuitions agree with the relative values, i.e., I would probably sacrifice each example for 10 equivalents of the preceding type (and vice-versa).
A unit — even if it is arbitrary or ad-hoc — makes relative comparison easier, because projects can be compared to a reference point, rather than between each other.. It also makes working with different orders of magnitude easier: instead of asking how valuable a blog post is compared to a foundational paper, one can move up and down in steps of 10x, which seems much more manageable.
Quality Adjusted Research Papers
Taken from here, but I want to be able to refer to the idea by itself.
~0.1-1 mQ: A particularly thoughtful blog post comment, like this one
~10 mQ: A particularly good blog post, like Extinguishing or preventing coal seam fires is a potential cause area
~100 mQ: A fairly valuable paper, like Categorizing Variants of Goodhart’s Law.
~1Q: A particularly valuable paper, like The Vulnerable World Hypothesis
~10-100 Q: The Global Priorities Institute’s Research Agenda.
~100-1000+ Q: A New York Times Bestseller on a valuable topic, like Superintelligence (cited 2,651 times), or Thinking Fast and Slow (cited 30,439 times.)
~1000+ Q: A foundational paper, like Shannon’s “A Mathematical Theory of Communication.” (cited 131,736 times.)
This spans six orders of magnitude (1 to 1,000,000 mQ), but I do find that my intuitions agree with the relative values, i.e., I would probably sacrifice each example for 10 equivalents of the preceding type (and vice-versa).
A unit — even if it is arbitrary or ad-hoc — makes relative comparison easier, because projects can be compared to a reference point, rather than between each other.. It also makes working with different orders of magnitude easier: instead of asking how valuable a blog post is compared to a foundational paper, one can move up and down in steps of 10x, which seems much more manageable.