Actually, I am against low-effort interventions that redirect people’s attention, because if they fail, they “poison the well” for future potentially high-effort interventions.
(That is, a low-effort EAA Forum that fails might make a future high-effort EAA Forum fail where it would otherwise have succeeded, because people now expect EAA Forums to fail and so don’t engage when they otherwise would have.)
Obviously specific details matter but I don’t think it’s as simple as “some probability of success for low effort is worth doing”.
I would also guess that a low-effort version / skin would fail, but I do have a lot of uncertainty there because I don’t know the EAA community very well any more.
Actually, I am against low-effort interventions that redirect people’s attention, because if they fail, they “poison the well” for future potentially high-effort interventions.
(That is, a low-effort EAA Forum that fails might make a future high-effort EAA Forum fail where it would otherwise have succeeded, because people now expect EAA Forums to fail and so don’t engage when they otherwise would have.)
Obviously specific details matter but I don’t think it’s as simple as “some probability of success for low effort is worth doing”.
I would also guess that a low-effort version / skin would fail, but I do have a lot of uncertainty there because I don’t know the EAA community very well any more.