It’s good to see a new enthusiastic team working on this! My impression, based on working on the problem ~2 years ago is this has good chances to provide value in global health a poverty, animal suffering, or parts of meta- cause areas; in case of x-risk focused projects, something like a ‘project platform’ seems almost purely bottlenecked by vetting. In the current proposal this seems to mostly depend on “Evaluation Commission”-> as a result, the most important part for x-risk projects seems judgement of members of this commission and/or it’s ability to seek external vetting
Thanks Jan! Yes, we even reference your post in our detailed write-up and agree that vetting will be critical and a bottle-neck to maximum positive impact, particularly related to x-risk. Currently we have implemented a plan that we believe is manageable exclusively by a small group of volunteers, and have included a step in the process that involves CEA’s Community Health team. Having said that, we don’t think that is an ideal stopping point, we hope to expand into other forms of vetting pending general interest in the project, vetting volunteer interest and the building of other functionality or establishment of partnership with outside orgs. You can read more in sections IV.9 and VI.11 of the write-up about our thinking on these topics. Lastly, given your fantastic analysis in the past, if you would like to help out we would welcome any new team members that are interested in or familiar with this metaproject—you can email info@impactcolabs.com anytime!
It’s good to see a new enthusiastic team working on this! My impression, based on working on the problem ~2 years ago is this has good chances to provide value in global health a poverty, animal suffering, or parts of meta- cause areas; in case of x-risk focused projects, something like a ‘project platform’ seems almost purely bottlenecked by vetting. In the current proposal this seems to mostly depend on “Evaluation Commission”-> as a result, the most important part for x-risk projects seems judgement of members of this commission and/or it’s ability to seek external vetting
Thanks Jan! Yes, we even reference your post in our detailed write-up and agree that vetting will be critical and a bottle-neck to maximum positive impact, particularly related to x-risk. Currently we have implemented a plan that we believe is manageable exclusively by a small group of volunteers, and have included a step in the process that involves CEA’s Community Health team. Having said that, we don’t think that is an ideal stopping point, we hope to expand into other forms of vetting pending general interest in the project, vetting volunteer interest and the building of other functionality or establishment of partnership with outside orgs. You can read more in sections IV.9 and VI.11 of the write-up about our thinking on these topics. Lastly, given your fantastic analysis in the past, if you would like to help out we would welcome any new team members that are interested in or familiar with this metaproject—you can email info@impactcolabs.com anytime!