One thing that I feel this post underemphasises is just how high impact the top PAs are going to be.
If you believe that impact is extremely heavy tailed, some PAs (like Holden’s) are probably going to have a far greater impact than the vast majority of high status EAs, even if you are on the more pessimistic end a PAs value add.
You also might be able to leverage not caring about status, it’s plausible to me that some people that would are going to start mediocre organisations should actually try to force-multiply the best people and one reason they don’t is beause of motivated reasoning/over-fitting to what the EA community assigns status to. If you care less about status you might be uniquely well positioned.
PAing for Liv/Igor and Daniela/Holden seem especially exciting to me. I am kind of averse to trying to control the status structures of EA but I think PAing for these people ‘should’ be higher status than running most orgs that OPP funds.
One thing that I feel this post underemphasises is just how high impact the top PAs are going to be.
If you believe that impact is extremely heavy tailed, some PAs (like Holden’s) are probably going to have a far greater impact than the vast majority of high status EAs, even if you are on the more pessimistic end a PAs value add.
You also might be able to leverage not caring about status, it’s plausible to me that some people that would are going to start mediocre organisations should actually try to force-multiply the best people and one reason they don’t is beause of motivated reasoning/over-fitting to what the EA community assigns status to. If you care less about status you might be uniquely well positioned.
PAing for Liv/Igor and Daniela/Holden seem especially exciting to me. I am kind of averse to trying to control the status structures of EA but I think PAing for these people ‘should’ be higher status than running most orgs that OPP funds.