Are you intending on doing evaluation of ’canonical non-peer reviewed EA work?
Short answer, probably down the road a little bit, after our pilot phase ends.
We’re currently mainly focused on getting academic and academic-linked researchers involved. Because of this, we are leaning towards targeting conventionally-prestigious and rigorous academic and policy work that also has the potential to be highly impactful.
In a sense, the Denkenberger paper is an exception to this, in that it is somewhat niche work that is particularly of interest to EAs and longtermists.
Most of the rest of our ‘current batch’ of priority papers to evaluate are NBER working papers or something of this nature. That aligns with the “to make rigorous work more impactful” part of our mission.
But going forward we would indeed like to do more of exactly what you are suggesting. To bring academic (and non-EA policy) expertise to EA-driven work; this is the ~”to make impactful work more rigorous” part of our mission. This might be done as part of a separate stream of work; we are still working out the formula.
This is an absolutely amazing project, thanks so much! Are you intending on doing evaluation of ’canonical non-peer reviewed EA work?
Thanks and good question.
Short answer, probably down the road a little bit, after our pilot phase ends.
We’re currently mainly focused on getting academic and academic-linked researchers involved. Because of this, we are leaning towards targeting conventionally-prestigious and rigorous academic and policy work that also has the potential to be highly impactful.
In a sense, the Denkenberger paper is an exception to this, in that it is somewhat niche work that is particularly of interest to EAs and longtermists.
Most of the rest of our ‘current batch’ of priority papers to evaluate are NBER working papers or something of this nature. That aligns with the “to make rigorous work more impactful” part of our mission.
But going forward we would indeed like to do more of exactly what you are suggesting. To bring academic (and non-EA policy) expertise to EA-driven work; this is the ~”to make impactful work more rigorous” part of our mission. This might be done as part of a separate stream of work; we are still working out the formula.