All fair points. My biggest point of disagreement is (2). As a true example, only around a third of EAG(x) attendees have applied for advising. That’s a much more expensive program for both the org and the participant. Tons of relevant people effectively don’t know advising exists (e.g. maybe they’ve heard of it once, but if it didn’t make it to the top of their stack that day, they forget about it). Importantly, our highest counterfactual comes from talking to only modestly engaged people, so maybe people who’ve done some reading but only know 1-2 other EAs – I see this program being aimed at these not-highly-engaged people makes the call more worthwhile, not less. “You were up for a call if someone leaned on you a bit,” seems roughly ideal to me.
All fair points. My biggest point of disagreement is (2). As a true example, only around a third of EAG(x) attendees have applied for advising. That’s a much more expensive program for both the org and the participant. Tons of relevant people effectively don’t know advising exists (e.g. maybe they’ve heard of it once, but if it didn’t make it to the top of their stack that day, they forget about it). Importantly, our highest counterfactual comes from talking to only modestly engaged people, so maybe people who’ve done some reading but only know 1-2 other EAs – I see this program being aimed at these not-highly-engaged people makes the call more worthwhile, not less. “You were up for a call if someone leaned on you a bit,” seems roughly ideal to me.