Also, I think conversations by the original authors of a lot of the more fleshed-out ideas are much more nuanced than the messages that get spread.
E.g. on 4: 80k has a long list of potential highest priority cause areas that are worth exploring for longtermists and Holden, in his 80k podcast episode and the forum post he wrote says that for most people probably shouldn’t go directly into AI (and instead should build aptitudes).
Nuanced ideas are harder to spread but also people feeling like they don’t have permission in community spaces (in local groups or on the forum) to say under-developed things means it is much less likely for the off-the-beaten-track stuff that has been mentioned but not fleshed out to come up in conversation (or to get developed further).
Also, I think conversations by the original authors of a lot of the more fleshed-out ideas are much more nuanced than the messages that get spread.
E.g. on 4: 80k has a long list of potential highest priority cause areas that are worth exploring for longtermists and Holden, in his 80k podcast episode and the forum post he wrote says that for most people probably shouldn’t go directly into AI (and instead should build aptitudes).
Nuanced ideas are harder to spread but also people feeling like they don’t have permission in community spaces (in local groups or on the forum) to say under-developed things means it is much less likely for the off-the-beaten-track stuff that has been mentioned but not fleshed out to come up in conversation (or to get developed further).