I remain in favor of people doing work on evals, and in favor of funding talented people to work on evals. The main intervention I’d like to make here is to inform how those people work on evals, so that it’s more productive. I think that should happen not on the level of grants but on the level of how they choose to conduct the research.
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1. Have you seen grants that you are confident are not a good use of EA’s money?
2. If so, do you think that if the grantmakers had asked for your input, you would have changed their minds about making the grant?
3. Do you think Open Philanthropy (and other grantmakers) should have external grant reviewers?
I remain in favor of people doing work on evals, and in favor of funding talented people to work on evals. The main intervention I’d like to make here is to inform how those people work on evals, so that it’s more productive. I think that should happen not on the level of grants but on the level of how they choose to conduct the research.