I appreciate your thoughts. I don’t know or feel like I really disagree with anything you said. I’m not sure there is much at the “heart of the disagreement”.
A person still needs to want to work at a startup...Small nudges can help.
I agree, yes, this seems useful.
it helps to know that the EA community and forum agrees with them
I think one new thing you are saying is that this series of posts has value in normalizing and supporting EAs who are committed to startups and would value being recognized. That seems valid and a new framing or perspective I didn’t consider.
My focus was more on newer people who are more likely to be updated, since it seems like this class of people is more impressionable.
My concern is downside risk, people who get burned by this advice. It seems likely that online discussion will bias against hearing from them, because their experience is literally failure, and because, as in my theory, it was inappropriate for them to take this advice in the first place.
Ideally this should happen via algorithm imo, the site should promote diversity of tags or something for frontpage.
This is a different topic. Diversity by algorithm seems problematic. While I imagine myself interested in the social and technical challenges, I can’t easily imagine any acceptable designs for the EA forum right now. My bias would be very conservative (including not doing anything “algorithmic” and relying on human editorial digests as occurs now).
I appreciate your thoughts. I don’t know or feel like I really disagree with anything you said. I’m not sure there is much at the “heart of the disagreement”.
I agree, yes, this seems useful.
I think one new thing you are saying is that this series of posts has value in normalizing and supporting EAs who are committed to startups and would value being recognized. That seems valid and a new framing or perspective I didn’t consider.
My focus was more on newer people who are more likely to be updated, since it seems like this class of people is more impressionable.
My concern is downside risk, people who get burned by this advice. It seems likely that online discussion will bias against hearing from them, because their experience is literally failure, and because, as in my theory, it was inappropriate for them to take this advice in the first place.
This is a different topic. Diversity by algorithm seems problematic. While I imagine myself interested in the social and technical challenges, I can’t easily imagine any acceptable designs for the EA forum right now. My bias would be very conservative (including not doing anything “algorithmic” and relying on human editorial digests as occurs now).