Hey Madeleine! Good question. You might want to change the title to make it more descriptive, i.e. something like âWhich EA organisations are working on systemic change?â.
PS- the answer is lots. LEEP gets governments to enforce laws around lead in paint and food, Legal Impact for Chickens is trying to change how laws are applied (as is THL UK), Pause AI routes through a mass movement, etcâŠ
When you get into it, the distinction between âsystemic changeâ and âmeasurable interventionâ is a spectrum rather than a binary. There are EA interventions at most points along that spectrum.
Appreciate it, Toby. Have done so! Thanks for the LEEP rec. My outside impression was that the gravity pulls hard toward the measurable end over the further-out bets (mass movements, narrative, constituency-building). Am curious who is thinking about health delivery policy change and welcome all such leads.
Would also love to explore the spectrum idea. My sense is there a) are a couple of axes that correlate: how upstream the lever is (service delivery â rules â institutions) and how easily you can measure and attribute the result (measurable/âattributable â diffuse/âlong-horizon). B) That the distribution is lopsidedâŠbut I am interested in outliers! Particularly for reasons of scale and/âor permanent norm change (Ă la abolition example)
Hey Madeleine! Good question. You might want to change the title to make it more descriptive, i.e. something like âWhich EA organisations are working on systemic change?â.
PS- the answer is lots. LEEP gets governments to enforce laws around lead in paint and food, Legal Impact for Chickens is trying to change how laws are applied (as is THL UK), Pause AI routes through a mass movement, etcâŠ
When you get into it, the distinction between âsystemic changeâ and âmeasurable interventionâ is a spectrum rather than a binary. There are EA interventions at most points along that spectrum.
Does Pause AI consider itself EA though?
Thatâs reasonable, I have no idea. Definitely a fellow traveller though (they come to the conferences, work from the offices, etc...).
Iâm sure there are many more examples of what Iâm pointing at here that are closer to âEAâ.
Appreciate it, Toby. Have done so! Thanks for the LEEP rec. My outside impression was that the gravity pulls hard toward the measurable end over the further-out bets (mass movements, narrative, constituency-building). Am curious who is thinking about health delivery policy change and welcome all such leads.
Would also love to explore the spectrum idea. My sense is there a) are a couple of axes that correlate: how upstream the lever is (service delivery â rules â institutions) and how easily you can measure and attribute the result (measurable/âattributable â diffuse/âlong-horizon). B) That the distribution is lopsidedâŠbut I am interested in outliers! Particularly for reasons of scale and/âor permanent norm change (Ă la abolition example)