I like that question, Guy. Note 80,000 Hours lists their external advisors on their website. The list only has 6 people (Dr Greg Lewis, Dr Rohin Shah, Dr Toby Ord, Prof. Hilary Greaves, Peter Hartree and Alex Lawsen), and all are quite connected to effective altruism and longtermism. Arden, are these all the external advisors you were referring to in your comment?
No, we have lots of external advisors that aren’t listed on our site. There are a few reasons we might not list people, including:
We might not want to be committed to asking for someone’s advice for a long time or need to remove them at some point.
The person might be happy to help us and give input but not want to be featured on our site.
It’s work to add people, and we often will reach out to someone in our network fairly quickly and informally, and it would feel like overkill /​ too much friction to get a bio, and get permission from them for it, on our site for them because we asked them a few questions.
Also, there are too many people we get takes from over the course of e.g. a few years to list in a way that would give context and not require substantial person-hours of upkeep. So instead we just list some representative advisors who give us input on key subject matters we work on and where they have notable expertise.
I like that question, Guy. Note 80,000 Hours lists their external advisors on their website. The list only has 6 people (Dr Greg Lewis, Dr Rohin Shah, Dr Toby Ord, Prof. Hilary Greaves, Peter Hartree and Alex Lawsen), and all are quite connected to effective altruism and longtermism. Arden, are these all the external advisors you were referring to in your comment?
No, we have lots of external advisors that aren’t listed on our site. There are a few reasons we might not list people, including:
We might not want to be committed to asking for someone’s advice for a long time or need to remove them at some point.
The person might be happy to help us and give input but not want to be featured on our site.
It’s work to add people, and we often will reach out to someone in our network fairly quickly and informally, and it would feel like overkill /​ too much friction to get a bio, and get permission from them for it, on our site for them because we asked them a few questions.
Also, there are too many people we get takes from over the course of e.g. a few years to list in a way that would give context and not require substantial person-hours of upkeep. So instead we just list some representative advisors who give us input on key subject matters we work on and where they have notable expertise.