I thought this was a really good look at how GiveWell things about expected value with respect to their top charities and helps rebut the claim that EAs are mostly concerned with high certainty charity donations.
The post updated me massively in the direction of voting being extremely important. Plus, if he’s right about how much voting matters, the impact of the post is likely to be pretty massive.
This is the sort of post I was talking about in my other comment—fun to read and easy to agree with, and therefore popular, but not particularly important.
A big purpose of awards is to send a signal about what kind of work will get recognized. If we give awards to joke posts, expect more joke posts.
I actually think the best use of awards is to recognize posts that are not the kind of content that spreads virally. Pageviews already serve as an ego boost for most authors. We should reward serious boring posts, in the same way the Nobel Prize is given out for serious boring research.
I’ll start things off by putting some of the content I really liked as replies to this post.
GiveWell’s post on why they recommend SCI even though deworming might have close to zero impact.
I thought this was a really good look at how GiveWell things about expected value with respect to their top charities and helps rebut the claim that EAs are mostly concerned with high certainty charity donations.
Rob Wiblin’s post on how much voting matters
The post updated me massively in the direction of voting being extremely important. Plus, if he’s right about how much voting matters, the impact of the post is likely to be pretty massive.
Will’s opening talk from EA Global
Lots of good content here although I’m particularly fond of his discussion of Cause X
Concerns with Intentional Insight
This might not be the best post to share with more casual EAs, but it was extremely well researched and raised an issue that needed to be addressed.
This is the sort of post I was talking about in my other comment—fun to read and easy to agree with, and therefore popular, but not particularly important.
GiveWell’s classic April Fools joke
This post was controversial, but I laughed long and hard and really enjoyed seeing a more human side from them.
A big purpose of awards is to send a signal about what kind of work will get recognized. If we give awards to joke posts, expect more joke posts.
I actually think the best use of awards is to recognize posts that are not the kind of content that spreads virally. Pageviews already serve as an ego boost for most authors. We should reward serious boring posts, in the same way the Nobel Prize is given out for serious boring research.
The link “View test writeup” seems broken. It brings me to a login page rather than the actual joke post. Did they take it down?