I guess I intended my comment above to make three claims:
It is empirically true that those orgs/āwikis you noted as having āprioritiesā in their names are focused on producing or collecting research, not on more directly acting on the world
Separately, to me, āglobal prioritiesā does seem to have connotations of working out what the global priorities are and less about actually acting on those answers.
Claim 1 seems to be in line with claim 2.
But I think claim 1 wasnāt the basis for claim 2; I already felt those connotations before you named those orgs, though of course I had already heard of the orgs.
But I donāt see these claims as super important, because:
We can just run a bunch of surveys and see what connotations other people perceive
Action-oriented vs research-oriented is just one of many relevant dimensions
āglobal prioritiesā is just one alternative name
I guess I see the small value of my comment as quickly highlighting small reasons to doubt your initial views and therefore additional reasons to gather more options, consider our goals/ācriteria/ādesiderata more (I like that your comment lists some general goals for names), and run a bunch of surveys.
I guess I intended my comment above to make three claims:
It is empirically true that those orgs/āwikis you noted as having āprioritiesā in their names are focused on producing or collecting research, not on more directly acting on the world
Separately, to me, āglobal prioritiesā does seem to have connotations of working out what the global priorities are and less about actually acting on those answers.
Claim 1 seems to be in line with claim 2.
But I think claim 1 wasnāt the basis for claim 2; I already felt those connotations before you named those orgs, though of course I had already heard of the orgs.
But I donāt see these claims as super important, because:
We can just run a bunch of surveys and see what connotations other people perceive
Action-oriented vs research-oriented is just one of many relevant dimensions
āglobal prioritiesā is just one alternative name
I guess I see the small value of my comment as quickly highlighting small reasons to doubt your initial views and therefore additional reasons to gather more options, consider our goals/ācriteria/ādesiderata more (I like that your comment lists some general goals for names), and run a bunch of surveys.
OK, what names would we expect to promote action-orientation if āGPā wouldnāt?
I do not know. Let me try generating names for a minute. Sorry. These will be bad.
āMarginal World Improversā
āCivilizational Engineersā
āBlack Swan Farmersā
āEthical Optimizersā
āHeavy-Tail Peopleā
Okay I will stop now.
A friendās ānames guyā once suggested calling the EA movement āUnfuck the worldā...
We can begin here.
EA popsci would be fun!
Ā§1. The past was totally fucked.
Ā§2. Bioweapons are fucked.
Ā§3. AI looks pretty fucked.
Ā§4. Are we fucked?
Ā§5. Unfuck the world!
I will resist the temptation to further expand that list.
āHello, Iām an Effective Altruist.ā
āHello, Iām a world-unfucker.ā
Honestly, I think the second one might be more action-oriented. And less likely to attract status-seekers. Alright, Iām convinced, letās do it :)