I forgot to do a disclosure here (to reveal potential bias):
I’m working on the EA Community Safety Net project with other committed people, which just started on 31 March. We’re now shifting direction from focusing on peer insurance against income loss to building a broader peer-funding platform in a Slack Team that also includes project funding and loans.
It will likely fail to become a thriving platform that hosts multiple financial instruments given the complexities involved and the past project failures I’ve seen on .impact. Having said that, we’re aiming high and I’m guessing there’s a 20% chance that it will succeed.
I’d especially be interested in hearing people’s thoughts on structuring the application form (i.e. criteria for project framework) to be able to reduce Unilateralist’s Curse scenarios as much as possible (and other stupid things we could cause as entrepreneurial creators who are moving away from the status quo).
Is there actually a list of ‘bad strategies naive EAs could think off’ where there’s a consensus amongst researchers that one party’s decision to pursue one of them will create systemic damage on an expected value basis? A short checklist (that I can go through before making an important decision) based on surveys would be really useful to me.
Come to think of this: I’ll start by with a quick Facebook poll in the general EA group. That sounds useful for compiling an initial list.
Any other opinions on preventing risks here are really welcome. I’m painfully aware of my ignorance here.
I forgot to do a disclosure here (to reveal potential bias):
I’m working on the EA Community Safety Net project with other committed people, which just started on 31 March. We’re now shifting direction from focusing on peer insurance against income loss to building a broader peer-funding platform in a Slack Team that also includes project funding and loans.
It will likely fail to become a thriving platform that hosts multiple financial instruments given the complexities involved and the past project failures I’ve seen on .impact. Having said that, we’re aiming high and I’m guessing there’s a 20% chance that it will succeed.
I’d especially be interested in hearing people’s thoughts on structuring the application form (i.e. criteria for project framework) to be able to reduce Unilateralist’s Curse scenarios as much as possible (and other stupid things we could cause as entrepreneurial creators who are moving away from the status quo).
Is there actually a list of ‘bad strategies naive EAs could think off’ where there’s a consensus amongst researchers that one party’s decision to pursue one of them will create systemic damage on an expected value basis? A short checklist (that I can go through before making an important decision) based on surveys would be really useful to me.
Come to think of this: I’ll start by with a quick Facebook poll in the general EA group. That sounds useful for compiling an initial list.
Any other opinions on preventing risks here are really welcome. I’m painfully aware of my ignorance here.