The suggestions are visible to EA Funds staff in a spreadsheet, but I donāt think theyāre visible to other people.
Suggesting a person to implement an idea is good but not necessaryādefinitely people should feel free to submit grant ideas without having a person in mind (and conversely should also feel free to submit ideas for people to fund for something or some vague thing [e.g., āmore writingā] rather than specific things, if the person seems quite promising or whatever).
I personally do think better ways of easily seeing, filtering, searching, compiling info on, etc. a whole bunch of ideas that have been proposed (and maybe also tried) seems good, but Iām not very optimistic about attempts to do that, largely because many proposals or attempts have been made and none seems to have properly caught on. Itās probably best if thatās done by an actor like CEA who has the resources to do it really well and maintain it and the status/āprominence to make it the central thing. See some further thoughts here and in the links (that focuses on research ideas, but similar points apply more generally): Proposal: A central, editable database to help people choose and do research projects [draft]
[Caveat: I wrote this comment quickly and donāt represent anyone but myself]
Thanks, I think I will suggest some grants sometime the next days. :)
I agree that it is probably hard create such a database in a way that it would be really useful and continuously used and that it may should be implemented by CEA.
(If CEA decides not to create something like that, it would still be interesting for people like me to see the suggestions, even if it is not for the purpose of task-people-matching. ^^)
And thanks for sharing the draft! I think it is helpful input, because I had some similar ideas, I will look into it more thoroughly later.
The suggestions are visible to EA Funds staff in a spreadsheet, but I donāt think theyāre visible to other people.
Suggesting a person to implement an idea is good but not necessaryādefinitely people should feel free to submit grant ideas without having a person in mind (and conversely should also feel free to submit ideas for people to fund for something or some vague thing [e.g., āmore writingā] rather than specific things, if the person seems quite promising or whatever).
I personally do think better ways of easily seeing, filtering, searching, compiling info on, etc. a whole bunch of ideas that have been proposed (and maybe also tried) seems good, but Iām not very optimistic about attempts to do that, largely because many proposals or attempts have been made and none seems to have properly caught on. Itās probably best if thatās done by an actor like CEA who has the resources to do it really well and maintain it and the status/āprominence to make it the central thing. See some further thoughts here and in the links (that focuses on research ideas, but similar points apply more generally): Proposal: A central, editable database to help people choose and do research projects [draft]
[Caveat: I wrote this comment quickly and donāt represent anyone but myself]
Thanks, I think I will suggest some grants sometime the next days. :)
I agree that it is probably hard create such a database in a way that it would be really useful and continuously used and that it may should be implemented by CEA.
(If CEA decides not to create something like that, it would still be interesting for people like me to see the suggestions, even if it is not for the purpose of task-people-matching. ^^)
And thanks for sharing the draft! I think it is helpful input, because I had some similar ideas, I will look into it more thoroughly later.