Intuition that this is one cause for an overall lack of useful volunteer work and generally not enough initiatives.
People have an understandable preference to start their career working on more commonsensical problems. Direct work on many EA causes puts a big risk for one’s career capital.
And frankly, I’ve just been reading some more about DARPA and how they systematically derisk funders, management and researchers and it seems like something which is amazingly important for most people anywhere, and we are in a good position to collaborate on reducing risk for people seriously doing good
What kinds of risky choices do EAs avoid? Are you thinking of any specific examples, perhaps particular cause areas or actions?
Main examples for me are
Michelle Hutchinson in the 80K podcast talks about Risk in Careers
Intuition that this is one cause for an overall lack of useful volunteer work and generally not enough initiatives.
People have an understandable preference to start their career working on more commonsensical problems. Direct work on many EA causes puts a big risk for one’s career capital.
The case for impact purchases.
And frankly, I’ve just been reading some more about DARPA and how they systematically derisk funders, management and researchers and it seems like something which is amazingly important for most people anywhere, and we are in a good position to collaborate on reducing risk for people seriously doing good
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