As someone who knows Anthony in-person and has engaged in more high-bandwidth communication with him than anyone else on this thread, I am happy to stake social capital on his insights being very much worth listening to broadly speaking and that he’s worth connecting to anyone who could give his ideas legs.
I have downvoted at least one comment in this thread that I felt was not conducive to more of his ideas being externalized into the world due to what I believe to be unnecessary focus on social norms/tone policing over tracking object-level ideas. I am not responding further nor am I responding to particular comments as I don’t want to feed the demon thread, but I do want to provide clarity on my judgement of what-is-in-the-right and also state I think Anthony could very possibly provide us Cause X as much as anyone I’ve seen.
To that end, I believe his interest in new/different infrastructure for how to communicate and internalize ideas is reasonable, and that it’s unreasonable to expect idea providers to also have to be the idea executors in the ideal impact marketplace, especially to the extent of expecting them to engage in implicit politics more than is strictly necessary to get the ball rolling.
it’s unreasonable to expect idea providers to also have to be the idea executors in the ideal impact marketplace
I could be wrong, but I think that most people think that the key bottleneck is “idea executors”, not “idea providers”. (E.g. I heard Charity Entrepreneurship has many intervention ideas, but even after extensive selection and training they are bottlenecked by finding enough founders).
So one shouldn’t be surprised if they share a great idea but it doesn’t get any traction, it seems to be the current state of things.
I think it’s important that this actually involves staking social capital because I would otherwise find such revision of very negative behaviour based on what is clearly external friendship (as well as the mass upvoting) more problematic than anything else that has occurred.
Imagine if everyone did this for their friends/enemies on the forum.
As someone who knows Anthony in-person and has engaged in more high-bandwidth communication with him than anyone else on this thread, I am happy to stake social capital on his insights being very much worth listening to broadly speaking and that he’s worth connecting to anyone who could give his ideas legs.
I have downvoted at least one comment in this thread that I felt was not conducive to more of his ideas being externalized into the world due to what I believe to be unnecessary focus on social norms/tone policing over tracking object-level ideas. I am not responding further nor am I responding to particular comments as I don’t want to feed the demon thread, but I do want to provide clarity on my judgement of what-is-in-the-right and also state I think Anthony could very possibly provide us Cause X as much as anyone I’ve seen.
To that end, I believe his interest in new/different infrastructure for how to communicate and internalize ideas is reasonable, and that it’s unreasonable to expect idea providers to also have to be the idea executors in the ideal impact marketplace, especially to the extent of expecting them to engage in implicit politics more than is strictly necessary to get the ball rolling.
I could be wrong, but I think that most people think that the key bottleneck is “idea executors”, not “idea providers”. (E.g. I heard Charity Entrepreneurship has many intervention ideas, but even after extensive selection and training they are bottlenecked by finding enough founders).
So one shouldn’t be surprised if they share a great idea but it doesn’t get any traction, it seems to be the current state of things.
I think it’s important that this actually involves staking social capital because I would otherwise find such revision of very negative behaviour based on what is clearly external friendship (as well as the mass upvoting) more problematic than anything else that has occurred.
Imagine if everyone did this for their friends/enemies on the forum.