Thanks for posting this. I think it’s an important issue that’s underdiscussed on the Forum. I found your counterfactual analysis of January 6th especially useful.
I do think it’s hard to find cost-effective interventions, harder than you suggest. And it will be very hard to obtain EA funding for this. However, from a distance it seems like that’s not needed for people to work on this, as I would expect a lot of US donors to be interested in funding effective initiatives.
I think it will be harder to get Democrats on board with voting methods that would diminish their power in favor of multi-party dynamics (as much as I’d like to see that).
Thanks for posting this. I think it’s an important issue that’s underdiscussed on the Forum. I found your counterfactual analysis of January 6th especially useful.
I do think it’s hard to find cost-effective interventions, harder than you suggest. And it will be very hard to obtain EA funding for this. However, from a distance it seems like that’s not needed for people to work on this, as I would expect a lot of US donors to be interested in funding effective initiatives.
I think it will be harder to get Democrats on board with voting methods that would diminish their power in favor of multi-party dynamics (as much as I’d like to see that).
I just made this Manifold Dashboard on US Democracy and welcome any suggestions for further questions.