Building such institutions is a form of community-building. Arguably, this is one of the most important ways of making a difference since it offers a lot of leverage. It came second in the Leaders Forum survey.
(Not very important.) Hm, which result of the survey do you mean? I can’t remember being given that option and can’t find it immediately in that post.
I was referring to the option “Building the EA and related communities.” If building such institutions is a form of community-building, then this gives some indication of its importance compared to other areas. Now, it might be the case that respondents didn’t have this in mind when answering and if they did, they would give it a much lower score.
Data point: When reading this post, I interpreted the “It” in “It came second in the Leaders Forum survey” as referring to “Building such institutions”—i.e., more and better epistemic institutions—rather than to “community-building”. Which seemed surprising to me, until I checked the survey.
(Not very important.) Hm, which result of the survey do you mean? I can’t remember being given that option and can’t find it immediately in that post.
I was referring to the option “Building the EA and related communities.” If building such institutions is a form of community-building, then this gives some indication of its importance compared to other areas. Now, it might be the case that respondents didn’t have this in mind when answering and if they did, they would give it a much lower score.
Makes sense, thanks!
Data point: When reading this post, I interpreted the “It” in “It came second in the Leaders Forum survey” as referring to “Building such institutions”—i.e., more and better epistemic institutions—rather than to “community-building”. Which seemed surprising to me, until I checked the survey.
(Btw, interesting post, thanks for writing it.)