This post was actually published in 2018 for the first time, but for some reason I wasn’t able to share the link with some people as it showed up as a draft. I resubmitted it and it has received some interest from the community again.
I think that the longer term evidence right now indicates that the impact of this was lower than the short-term evidence made me anticipate. I expected to have several highly engaged new members in the EA community longer term, but currently it appears that these people are only weakly involved with effective altruism. Hence, I would say that the cost-effectiveness of this project was not high. But there are some indirect effects this might have had related to marketing and reaching more people indirectly, which I don’t have a good understanding of.
Do you think you’ll keep running the project? How impactful do you think it was per $ spent?
This post was actually published in 2018 for the first time, but for some reason I wasn’t able to share the link with some people as it showed up as a draft. I resubmitted it and it has received some interest from the community again.
I think that the longer term evidence right now indicates that the impact of this was lower than the short-term evidence made me anticipate. I expected to have several highly engaged new members in the EA community longer term, but currently it appears that these people are only weakly involved with effective altruism. Hence, I would say that the cost-effectiveness of this project was not high. But there are some indirect effects this might have had related to marketing and reaching more people indirectly, which I don’t have a good understanding of.