Thanks a lot for doing this evaluation! I haven’t read it in full yet, but I would like to encourage more people to review and critique EA Funds. As the EA Funds ED, I really appreciate it if others take the time to engage with our work and help us improve.
I’d be pretty excited about financially incentivizing people to do more such evaluations. Not sure how to set the incentives optimally, though – I really want to avoid any incentives that make it more likely that people say what we want to hear (or that lead others to think that this is what happened, even when didn’t), but I also care a lot about such evaluations being high-quality and and having sufficient depth, so don’t want to hand out money for any kind of evaluation.
Perhaps one way is to pay $2,000 for any evaluation or review that receives >120 Karma on the EA Forum (periodically adjusted for Karma inflation), regardless of what it finds? Of course, this is somewhat gameable, but perhaps it’s good enough.
Thanks a lot for doing this evaluation! I haven’t read it in full yet, but I would like to encourage more people to review and critique EA Funds. As the EA Funds ED, I really appreciate it if others take the time to engage with our work and help us improve.
Is there a useful way to financially incentivise these sort of independent evaluations? Seems like a potential good use of fund money
I’d be pretty excited about financially incentivizing people to do more such evaluations. Not sure how to set the incentives optimally, though – I really want to avoid any incentives that make it more likely that people say what we want to hear (or that lead others to think that this is what happened, even when didn’t), but I also care a lot about such evaluations being high-quality and and having sufficient depth, so don’t want to hand out money for any kind of evaluation.
Perhaps one way is to pay $2,000 for any evaluation or review that receives >120 Karma on the EA Forum (periodically adjusted for Karma inflation), regardless of what it finds? Of course, this is somewhat gameable, but perhaps it’s good enough.