That’s the claim I made, yes. Looking again at GovAI’s publications, I’m not sure why I thought that at the time since they do look more like policy research. Perhaps I was taking a strict definition of “policy research” where it only counts if it informs policy in some way I care about.
Right now it looks like my past self was wrong but I’m going to defer to him because he spent more time on it than I’m spending now. I’m not going to spend more time on it because this issue isn’t decision-relevant, but there’s a reasonable chance I was confused about something when I wrote that.
Your past self is definitely wrong—GovAI does way more policy work than technical work—but maybe that’s irrelevant since you prioritize advocacy work anyway (and GovAI does little of that).
That’s the claim I made, yes. Looking again at GovAI’s publications, I’m not sure why I thought that at the time since they do look more like policy research. Perhaps I was taking a strict definition of “policy research” where it only counts if it informs policy in some way I care about.
Right now it looks like my past self was wrong but I’m going to defer to him because he spent more time on it than I’m spending now. I’m not going to spend more time on it because this issue isn’t decision-relevant, but there’s a reasonable chance I was confused about something when I wrote that.
Your past self is definitely wrong—GovAI does way more policy work than technical work—but maybe that’s irrelevant since you prioritize advocacy work anyway (and GovAI does little of that).