My hunch is that for people who are in the top 5% of EA researchers, most of the impact will flow from people building on your actual discoveries, or maybe from noticing how excellent your research is, whereas people who are below that might want to make more conscious efforts toward building institutional allies, working on journals, being politically engaged, et cetera.
Is an academic’s influence more important in creating new EAs or on the research they do themselves?
Alternatively, is trying to influence a field and cause other researchers to be more interested in useful research possible, how?
My hunch is that for people who are in the top 5% of EA researchers, most of the impact will flow from people building on your actual discoveries, or maybe from noticing how excellent your research is, whereas people who are below that might want to make more conscious efforts toward building institutional allies, working on journals, being politically engaged, et cetera.