As a sharp mind, respected scholar, or prominent member in the EA community, you have a certain degree of agency, an ability to start new projects and make things happen, a no small amount of oomph and mojo. How are you planning to use this agency in the coming decades?
This is a genuine question. The framing is that if Toby Ord wants to get in touch with a high ranking member of government, get an article published in a prominent newspaper, direct a large number of man hours to a project he finds worthy, etc. he probably can; just the association to Oxford will open doors in many cases.
This is in opposition to a box in a basement which produces the same research he would, and some of these differences stem from him being endorsed by some prestigious organizations, and there being some social common knowledge around his person. The words “public intellectual” come to mind.
I’m wondering how the powers-of-being-different-from-a-box-which-produces-research will pan out.
As a sharp mind, respected scholar, or prominent member in the EA community, you have a certain degree of agency, an ability to start new projects and make things happen, a no small amount of oomph and mojo. How are you planning to use this agency in the coming decades?
This is a genuine question. The framing is that if Toby Ord wants to get in touch with a high ranking member of government, get an article published in a prominent newspaper, direct a large number of man hours to a project he finds worthy, etc. he probably can; just the association to Oxford will open doors in many cases.
This is in opposition to a box in a basement which produces the same research he would, and some of these differences stem from him being endorsed by some prestigious organizations, and there being some social common knowledge around his person. The words “public intellectual” come to mind.
I’m wondering how the powers-of-being-different-from-a-box-which-produces-research will pan out.