Note: despite it being kind of neat (in my humble opinion) to develop such a scoring system, and getting mixed-to-positive feedback about it, I don’t seem to have gotten attention from EA or EA-adjacent media, journalists, podcasts, etc.
kbog, maybe you should reach out to one of the writers for Vox’s Future Perfect and ask what you could do to get an article there about your work?
I think you’d want to show the scores without weighting/aggregating across issues, and just leave ”?” instead of the party priors when there’s too little info, since Bayesianism might be too much for a more general audience. Articles ranking candidates on issues are pretty common.
One concern, though, is that readers will just use their own values which are not very EA-aligned (less concern for non-Americans, speciesist, less concern for the far future), or you’ll have to omit issues which aren’t EA enough, and then readers will complain that important issues have been left out. I don’t think there’s any way to win here, since the readers will have different values.
Have you tried reaching out to anyone?
kbog, maybe you should reach out to one of the writers for Vox’s Future Perfect and ask what you could do to get an article there about your work?
I think you’d want to show the scores without weighting/aggregating across issues, and just leave ”?” instead of the party priors when there’s too little info, since Bayesianism might be too much for a more general audience. Articles ranking candidates on issues are pretty common.
One concern, though, is that readers will just use their own values which are not very EA-aligned (less concern for non-Americans, speciesist, less concern for the far future), or you’ll have to omit issues which aren’t EA enough, and then readers will complain that important issues have been left out. I don’t think there’s any way to win here, since the readers will have different values.
Another possibility is making an alignment quiz like https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz