I didnât read the Future Perfect article as being especially supportive (though I only skimmed the middle portions). It seemed like a fairly neutral report on âsomething a lot of people on our side of the political spectrum care aboutâ. Did I miss a portion of the article that actually advocated for the idea?
For the record, I think itâs best to ignore Future Perfect articles that donât have any obvious bearing on EA causes (unless they seem actively damaging to EA) because something like half their work fits that description and I donât think thatâs going to change.
I agree with Aaron, though I might be more in favor than most people of âhigh-quality EA Forum discussion of things that are important for how the world works but arenât obviously EA-flavored or actionableâ. Vox probably isnât a great source for topics, but I do think EA should be branching out increasingly into topics that donât feel EA-ish, to build up models and questions that might feed into interventions further down the road.
I didnât read the Future Perfect article as being especially supportive (though I only skimmed the middle portions). It seemed like a fairly neutral report on âsomething a lot of people on our side of the political spectrum care aboutâ. Did I miss a portion of the article that actually advocated for the idea?
For the record, I think itâs best to ignore Future Perfect articles that donât have any obvious bearing on EA causes (unless they seem actively damaging to EA) because something like half their work fits that description and I donât think thatâs going to change.
I agree with Aaron, though I might be more in favor than most people of âhigh-quality EA Forum discussion of things that are important for how the world works but arenât obviously EA-flavored or actionableâ. Vox probably isnât a great source for topics, but I do think EA should be branching out increasingly into topics that donât feel EA-ish, to build up models and questions that might feed into interventions further down the road.
+1
I think monetary policy etc. has a lot of relevance to things EA cares about.
Happily itâs already on Open Philâs radar: https://ââwww.openphilanthropy.org/ââresearch/ââcause-reports/ââmacroeconomic-policy
If itâs crankery then it shouldnât get a fairly neutral report.