It seems many would much prefer expediency in median project cases to robustness and safety in rare low frequency possibly large negative impact cases. I do not think this is the right approach, when the intention is also to evaluate long-term oriented, x-risk, meta-, cause-X, or highly ambitious projects.
I’m afraid there is some confusion about project failure modes. I’m more worried about projects which would be successful in having a team, working successfully in some sense, changing the world, but achieving large negative impact in the end.
I feel sad about the repeated claims the proposal is rigid, costly or large-scale. If something would not work in practice it could be easily changed. Spending something like 5h of time on a project idea which likely was result of much longer deliberation and which may lead to thousands hours of work seems reasonable. Paradoxically, just the discussion about whether the project is costly or not likely already had higher cost than what setting the whole proposed infrastructure for the project + phases 1a,1d,1c would cost.
Meta:
I will .not have time to participate in the discussion in next few days. Thanks for the comments so far.
Summary impressions so far: object-level
It seems many would much prefer expediency in median project cases to robustness and safety in rare low frequency possibly large negative impact cases. I do not think this is the right approach, when the intention is also to evaluate long-term oriented, x-risk, meta-, cause-X, or highly ambitious projects.
I’m afraid there is some confusion about project failure modes. I’m more worried about projects which would be successful in having a team, working successfully in some sense, changing the world, but achieving large negative impact in the end.
I feel sad about the repeated claims the proposal is rigid, costly or large-scale. If something would not work in practice it could be easily changed. Spending something like 5h of time on a project idea which likely was result of much longer deliberation and which may lead to thousands hours of work seems reasonable. Paradoxically, just the discussion about whether the project is costly or not likely already had higher cost than what setting the whole proposed infrastructure for the project + phases 1a,1d,1c would cost.
Meta:
I will .not have time to participate in the discussion in next few days. Thanks for the comments so far.