Specialization of labor has a track record of saving people time that goes back millenia.
Sounds great, but it’s only valuable when people can actually specialize. You can’t specialize in determining whether somebody’s a true EA or not. Being on a committee that does this won’t make you wiser or fairer about it. It’s a job that’s equally doable by people already in the community with their existing skills and their existing job titles.
A respected neutral panel whose job is resolving controversies has a better chance of its opinions being universally followed than people whose participation in a discussion is selected on the basis of anger
It’s trivially true that the majority opinion is most likely to be followed.
With regard to ridiculousness, I don’t think what I’m suggesting is very different than the way lots of groups govern themselves.
Sure it is. You’re suggesting that the FIDE start deciding who’s not allowed to play chess.
In this case, what I meant to communicate was that we should factor in everything besides weirdness points, then factor in weirdness points.
I don’t think the order in which you factor things will make a difference in how the options are eventually ranked, assuming you’re being rational. In any case, there are large differences. For one thing, the SCA does not care about how it is perceived by outsiders. The SCA is often rewarded for being weird. The SCA is also not necessarily rational.
Implementation of my proposal might involve the creation of an “Effective Altruism Assocation”, analgous to the SCA, as I describe here.
Then you’re suggesting something far larger and far more comprehensive than anything that I’ve heard about, which I have no interest in discussing.
Being on a committee that does this won’t make you wiser or fairer about it.
I actually think being on a committee helps some on its own, because you know you’ll be held accountable for how you do your job. But I expect most of the advantages of a committee to be in (a) identifying people who are wise and fair to serve on it (and yes, I do think some people are wiser and fairer than others) (b) having those people spend a lot of time thinking about the relevant considerations (c) overcoming bystander effects and ensuring that there exists some neutral third party to help adjudicate conflicts.
If there’s no skill to this sort of thing, why not make decisions by flipping coins?
It’s a job that’s equally doable by people already in the community with their existing skills and their existing job titles.
Well naturally, the committee would be staffed by people who are already in the community, and it would probably not be their full-time job.
Sure it is. You’re suggesting that the FIDE start deciding who’s not allowed to play chess.
Do you really think chess federations will let you continue to play at their events if you cheat or if you’re rude/aggressive?
Sounds great, but it’s only valuable when people can actually specialize. You can’t specialize in determining whether somebody’s a true EA or not. Being on a committee that does this won’t make you wiser or fairer about it. It’s a job that’s equally doable by people already in the community with their existing skills and their existing job titles.
It’s trivially true that the majority opinion is most likely to be followed.
Sure it is. You’re suggesting that the FIDE start deciding who’s not allowed to play chess.
I don’t think the order in which you factor things will make a difference in how the options are eventually ranked, assuming you’re being rational. In any case, there are large differences. For one thing, the SCA does not care about how it is perceived by outsiders. The SCA is often rewarded for being weird. The SCA is also not necessarily rational.
Then you’re suggesting something far larger and far more comprehensive than anything that I’ve heard about, which I have no interest in discussing.
I actually think being on a committee helps some on its own, because you know you’ll be held accountable for how you do your job. But I expect most of the advantages of a committee to be in (a) identifying people who are wise and fair to serve on it (and yes, I do think some people are wiser and fairer than others) (b) having those people spend a lot of time thinking about the relevant considerations (c) overcoming bystander effects and ensuring that there exists some neutral third party to help adjudicate conflicts.
If there’s no skill to this sort of thing, why not make decisions by flipping coins?
Well naturally, the committee would be staffed by people who are already in the community, and it would probably not be their full-time job.
Do you really think chess federations will let you continue to play at their events if you cheat or if you’re rude/aggressive?