Thank you for posting this! I was going to post something about this myself soon, but you beat me to it!
Decision Analysis (the practical discipline of analyzing decisions, usually in a business, operations, or policy context; not the same as decision theory): This discipline overlaps in obvious ways with a lot of EA and LessWrong discussions, but I have seen few direct references to Decision Analysis literature, and there seems to be little direct interaction between the EA/LW and DA communities. I’d love to see if we could bring in a few DA experts to give some workshops on the tools and techniques they’ve developed. Several companies have also developed DA software that I think may be very useful for EA, and I’d love to see collaborations with some of these companies to see how those software systems can be best adapted for the needs of EA orgs and researchers.
Risk analysis is another closely related field that I would like to see more interaction with.
Thank you for posting this! I was going to post something about this myself soon, but you beat me to it!
Decision Analysis (the practical discipline of analyzing decisions, usually in a business, operations, or policy context; not the same as decision theory): This discipline overlaps in obvious ways with a lot of EA and LessWrong discussions, but I have seen few direct references to Decision Analysis literature, and there seems to be little direct interaction between the EA/LW and DA communities. I’d love to see if we could bring in a few DA experts to give some workshops on the tools and techniques they’ve developed. Several companies have also developed DA software that I think may be very useful for EA, and I’d love to see collaborations with some of these companies to see how those software systems can be best adapted for the needs of EA orgs and researchers.
Risk analysis is another closely related field that I would like to see more interaction with.
Hi Aryeh, really interested in this as well. Can you link me to any literature, experts, videos, software etc. that you deem valuable from DA?
Would be really useful for future training programs from Training For Good!
Which DA software systems are worth looking closer at? Have you done any preliminary analysis to know? I would be keen to find one worth using…