Yeah I’m not sure this is a substantial disagreement, although I’m not sure that “proportion of movement working on meta” is a useful heuristic for choosing between cause areas. I don’t know how we could come up with a good proportion other than arbitrarily making up a number that looks reasonable (which is what people seem to do). It’s probably not that useful to arbitrarily make up a number and then decide what cause area to work on based on how far we are from that made-up number. Perhaps we could make a more rigorous attempt to determine a good proportion, but that’s not any easier than doing expected-value estimates of different cause areas, and in the end, proportion in meta is really a proxy for expected value of marginal contributions.
Yeah I’m not sure this is a substantial disagreement, although I’m not sure that “proportion of movement working on meta” is a useful heuristic for choosing between cause areas. I don’t know how we could come up with a good proportion other than arbitrarily making up a number that looks reasonable (which is what people seem to do). It’s probably not that useful to arbitrarily make up a number and then decide what cause area to work on based on how far we are from that made-up number. Perhaps we could make a more rigorous attempt to determine a good proportion, but that’s not any easier than doing expected-value estimates of different cause areas, and in the end, proportion in meta is really a proxy for expected value of marginal contributions.