Yes! The conversations and shallow reviews are the first place I start when researching a new area for EA purposes. They’ve saved me lots of time and blind alleys.
OpenPhil might not see these benefits directly themselves, but without information sharing individual EAs and EA orgs would keep re-researching the same topics over and over again and not be able to build on each other’s findings.
It may be possible to have information sharing through people’s networks but this becomes increasingly difficult as the EA network grows, and excludes competent people who might not know the right people to get information from.
Yes! The conversations and shallow reviews are the first place I start when researching a new area for EA purposes. They’ve saved me lots of time and blind alleys.
OpenPhil might not see these benefits directly themselves, but without information sharing individual EAs and EA orgs would keep re-researching the same topics over and over again and not be able to build on each other’s findings.
It may be possible to have information sharing through people’s networks but this becomes increasingly difficult as the EA network grows, and excludes competent people who might not know the right people to get information from.