I think so. However, it remains to be seen if it is a significant or useful enough constraint to justify attention over others.
Maybe. Hard to know if it is that or a coordination constraint though. I think that the more significant issue is that many of our good ideas never encounter a critical mass of supporting resources to bring them to fruition. There are definitely many coincidence of wants related problems, where someone has a good idea that someone would do or fund but that person never hears of it.
A better pipeline for idea generation and implementation. Incentives to share, curate prioritise and implement ideas. I think that more open innovation competitions and idea incubators could be helpful.
There are definitely many coincidence of wants related problems, where someone has a good idea that someone would do or fund but that person never hears of it.
Very much agree with your points, this one in particular. I think in a perfect world we would all have a way of knowing of what others in the EA community are thinking about, working on and what they need help with. I’d love to have a way to share more openly (but without wasting other’s attention) what I’m focusing on so that others who think about similar things could be made aware of this opportunity for collaboration. But I don’t really know of any practical ways to achieve this. Write a forum post saying “Hey everyone I’m really interested in X recently and plan to spend the next 3 months diving into that topic”? Probably not.
EA G(X) could be helpful, because you can share your (current) interests in your profile on the networking app. And theoretically find others who mention the same keywords. But then swapcard comes along and doesn’t support proper searching, so I missed out on many potentially great relevant contacts. :( Plus of course it doesn’t happen all that often, and always contains only a relatively small subset of the community.
(On phone, so will be very concise)
I think so. However, it remains to be seen if it is a significant or useful enough constraint to justify attention over others.
Maybe. Hard to know if it is that or a coordination constraint though. I think that the more significant issue is that many of our good ideas never encounter a critical mass of supporting resources to bring them to fruition. There are definitely many coincidence of wants related problems, where someone has a good idea that someone would do or fund but that person never hears of it.
A better pipeline for idea generation and implementation. Incentives to share, curate prioritise and implement ideas. I think that more open innovation competitions and idea incubators could be helpful.
Very much agree with your points, this one in particular. I think in a perfect world we would all have a way of knowing of what others in the EA community are thinking about, working on and what they need help with. I’d love to have a way to share more openly (but without wasting other’s attention) what I’m focusing on so that others who think about similar things could be made aware of this opportunity for collaboration. But I don’t really know of any practical ways to achieve this. Write a forum post saying “Hey everyone I’m really interested in X recently and plan to spend the next 3 months diving into that topic”? Probably not.
EA G(X) could be helpful, because you can share your (current) interests in your profile on the networking app. And theoretically find others who mention the same keywords. But then swapcard comes along and doesn’t support proper searching, so I missed out on many potentially great relevant contacts. :( Plus of course it doesn’t happen all that often, and always contains only a relatively small subset of the community.