Super great to hear that 10% of 80000 Hours team time will go into underlying research. (Also apologies for getting things wrong, was generalising from what I could find online about what 80K plans to work on – have edited the post). If you have more info on what this research might look into do let me know.
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That there is an exploit explore tradeoff. Continuing to do cause prioritisation research needs to be weighed against focusing on specific cause areas.
I imply in my post that EA organisations have jumped too quickly into exploit. (I mention 80K and FHI, but l am judging from an outside view so might be wrong). I think this is a hard case to make, especially to anyone who is more certain than me about which causes matter (which may be the most EA folk). That said there are other reasons for continuing to explore, to create a diverse community, epistemic humility, game theoretic reasons (better if everyone explores a bit more), to counter optimism bias, etc.
Not sure I am explaining this well. I guess I am saying that I still think the high level point I was making stands: that EA organisations seem to move towards exploit quicker than I would like. But do let me know if you disagree.
Super great to hear that 10% of 80000 Hours team time will go into underlying research. (Also apologies for getting things wrong, was generalising from what I could find online about what 80K plans to work on – have edited the post). If you have more info on what this research might look into do let me know.
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That there is an exploit explore tradeoff. Continuing to do cause prioritisation research needs to be weighed against focusing on specific cause areas.
I imply in my post that EA organisations have jumped too quickly into exploit. (I mention 80K and FHI, but l am judging from an outside view so might be wrong). I think this is a hard case to make, especially to anyone who is more certain than me about which causes matter (which may be the most EA folk). That said there are other reasons for continuing to explore, to create a diverse community, epistemic humility, game theoretic reasons (better if everyone explores a bit more), to counter optimism bias, etc.
Not sure I am explaining this well. I guess I am saying that I still think the high level point I was making stands: that EA organisations seem to move towards exploit quicker than I would like. But do let me know if you disagree.