I can think of two main reasons why your posts havenāt resulted in introductions to relevant specialists:
People with those connections havenāt seen your posts.
While such people have seen your posts they donāt consider this opportunity sufficiently promising to pass it on.
While many people do read the Forum it wouldnāt be surprising if no one had seen your post who knew anyone relevant, since there arenāt that many relevant experts. And even if they are, when you give someone an introduction you are staking some of your social capital, and based on your initial post and comments here I would not, personally, be willing to stake such capital.
I had seen that youād written that you werenāt looking for funding, and my post above doesnāt suggest that you were. Instead, I was suggesting that you do and giving ideas on how you might use funding to make progress on this project. After reading your responses here, however, I withdraw that suggestion.
I apologize for lumping your funding-suggestion along-side othersā funding-misrepresentation. I see that you are looking for ways to make it possible, and funding is what came to mind. Thank you.
(I am still surprised that funding is continually the first topic, after I specify that the government is the best institution to finance such a project. EA would go bankrupt, if they tried to stop hurricanes...)
And, I understand if people donāt consider my proposal promisingāI am not demanding that they divert resources, especially funds which are best spent on highest guaranteed impact! Yet, there is a cliquishness in excluding diverse dialogue based upon āsocial capital/āreputationāāI hope you can see that the social graphās connectivity falls apart when we cut those ties.
Itās also odd that the only data-point used to evaluate me would be the slice of time immediately after Iād been prodded repeatedly. I wish I could hand you the video-tapes of my life, and let you evaluate me rightly. When I am repeatedly misrepresented, defending myself, then you donāt see a representative slice of who I am.
Worst of all, no measure of my persona or character is a measure of the worth of a thought. If I am not a good fit for making it happen, then the best I can do I find someone who fits that well. The idea itself stands or falls on its own merits, and measuring me ignores that. I wonāt know if itās worth doing until I have a simulation, at least. I donāt know how anyone else has certainty on the matter, especially from such a noisy proxy as āperceived tone via text messageā.
I am still surprised that funding is continually the first topic, after I specify that the government is the best institution to finance such a project. EA would go bankrupt, if they tried to stop hurricanes...
The reason I brought up funding was not that I thought it might make sense for EAs to fund the entire thing, but that it might allow you to address the reasons your proposal is currently stalled. I gave a few ideas of specific things you might do with funding:
Free up your time to learn how to run a simulation.
Yes, I understand that funding can let me hire people to do that workāand I donāt need funding to free my time. I understand that, if I delay for the sake of doing-it-alone, then I am responsible for that additional harm. It doesnāt make sense for me to run a simulation or lobby by myself; and Iāve been in the position of hiring people, as well as working with people who are internally motivated. I hoped to find the internally motivated people, firstāthatās why I asked EA for connections, instead of just posting something on a job site.
I can think of two main reasons why your posts havenāt resulted in introductions to relevant specialists:
People with those connections havenāt seen your posts.
While such people have seen your posts they donāt consider this opportunity sufficiently promising to pass it on.
While many people do read the Forum it wouldnāt be surprising if no one had seen your post who knew anyone relevant, since there arenāt that many relevant experts. And even if they are, when you give someone an introduction you are staking some of your social capital, and based on your initial post and comments here I would not, personally, be willing to stake such capital.
I had seen that youād written that you werenāt looking for funding, and my post above doesnāt suggest that you were. Instead, I was suggesting that you do and giving ideas on how you might use funding to make progress on this project. After reading your responses here, however, I withdraw that suggestion.
I apologize for lumping your funding-suggestion along-side othersā funding-misrepresentation. I see that you are looking for ways to make it possible, and funding is what came to mind. Thank you.
(I am still surprised that funding is continually the first topic, after I specify that the government is the best institution to finance such a project. EA would go bankrupt, if they tried to stop hurricanes...)
And, I understand if people donāt consider my proposal promisingāI am not demanding that they divert resources, especially funds which are best spent on highest guaranteed impact! Yet, there is a cliquishness in excluding diverse dialogue based upon āsocial capital/āreputationāāI hope you can see that the social graphās connectivity falls apart when we cut those ties.
Itās also odd that the only data-point used to evaluate me would be the slice of time immediately after Iād been prodded repeatedly. I wish I could hand you the video-tapes of my life, and let you evaluate me rightly. When I am repeatedly misrepresented, defending myself, then you donāt see a representative slice of who I am.
Worst of all, no measure of my persona or character is a measure of the worth of a thought. If I am not a good fit for making it happen, then the best I can do I find someone who fits that well. The idea itself stands or falls on its own merits, and measuring me ignores that. I wonāt know if itās worth doing until I have a simulation, at least. I donāt know how anyone else has certainty on the matter, especially from such a noisy proxy as āperceived tone via text messageā.
The reason I brought up funding was not that I thought it might make sense for EAs to fund the entire thing, but that it might allow you to address the reasons your proposal is currently stalled. I gave a few ideas of specific things you might do with funding:
Free up your time to learn how to run a simulation.
Free up your time to for lobbying.
Exploring existing work on hurricane prevention.
Hiring someone else to do any of the above.
Yes, I understand that funding can let me hire people to do that workāand I donāt need funding to free my time. I understand that, if I delay for the sake of doing-it-alone, then I am responsible for that additional harm. It doesnāt make sense for me to run a simulation or lobby by myself; and Iāve been in the position of hiring people, as well as working with people who are internally motivated. I hoped to find the internally motivated people, firstāthatās why I asked EA for connections, instead of just posting something on a job site.