I suppose the complement to the naive thing I said before is “80k needs a compelling reason to recruit people to EA, and needs EA to be compelling to the people to recruit to it as well; by doing an excellent job at some object-level work, you can grow the value of 80k recruiting, both by making it easier to do and by making the outcome a more valuable outcome. Perhaps this might be even better for recruiting than doing recruiting.”
I think there are a bunch of meta effects from working in an object level job:
The object level work makes people more likely to enter the field as you note. (Though this doesn’t just route through 80k and goes through a bunch of mechanisms.)
You’ll probably have some conversations with people considering entering the field from a slightly more credible position at least if the object level stuff goes well.
Part of the work will likely involve fleshing stuff out so people with less context can more easily join/contribute. (True for most / many jobs.)
I think there are a bunch of meta effects from working in an object level job:
The object level work makes people more likely to enter the field as you note. (Though this doesn’t just route through 80k and goes through a bunch of mechanisms.)
You’ll probably have some conversations with people considering entering the field from a slightly more credible position at least if the object level stuff goes well.
Part of the work will likely involve fleshing stuff out so people with less context can more easily join/contribute. (True for most / many jobs.)