I would be really interested in seeing this written up. I have many thoughts related to the idea of geting credit (probably not directly related to your post)
I have been thinking a lot about how much of a role high-status plays in influencing people to make decisions, and whether this is always a good thing. For example, many things are highly uncertain but ones endorsed by the community might get a sense of security that even if this doesn’t pan out, the person has the support of the community that they did the best thing. Whereas, another cause or intervention might be avoided due to this lack of support.
I also wonder to what extent people take into account being given ‘credit’ for contributing to a cause or intervention, be it consciously or unconsciously.
Finally, I think post could also raise some interesting questions about the long-term sustainability of EA and its perception to non-EAs, and suggest that tracking as much EA activity as possible now is important if we need to convince people that we made an impact (to combat arguments like “these positive things would have happened anyways/were inevitable”
(Also, perhaps I should have also separated my answers! For next time)
I would be really interested in seeing this written up. I have many thoughts related to the idea of geting credit (probably not directly related to your post)
I have been thinking a lot about how much of a role high-status plays in influencing people to make decisions, and whether this is always a good thing. For example, many things are highly uncertain but ones endorsed by the community might get a sense of security that even if this doesn’t pan out, the person has the support of the community that they did the best thing. Whereas, another cause or intervention might be avoided due to this lack of support.
I also wonder to what extent people take into account being given ‘credit’ for contributing to a cause or intervention, be it consciously or unconsciously.
Finally, I think post could also raise some interesting questions about the long-term sustainability of EA and its perception to non-EAs, and suggest that tracking as much EA activity as possible now is important if we need to convince people that we made an impact (to combat arguments like “these positive things would have happened anyways/were inevitable”
(Also, perhaps I should have also separated my answers! For next time)