If you have any confident thoughts, I’d be interested to hear which funding opportunities in the space seem most promising to you. (i.e. my question above was not rhetorical.) In particular, it is not obvious to me where the funding gaps are, and you seem likely to be better placed to know.
Also, I think there are some considerations which are 1-3 orders of magnitude more important than RTPT. Your post prompted me to write up a simple quantitative comparison of factors. Would you be interested in discussing/commenting at some point?
My current best guess happens to be that there aren’t great funding opportunities in the “priorities research” space—for a point of reference, GPI is still sitting on cash while it decides which economist(s) to recruit—but that there will be better funding opportunities over the next few years, as the infrastructure gets better set up and as the pipeline of young EA economists starts flowing. For example I’d actually be kind of surprised if there weren’t a “Parfit Institute” (or whatever it might be called), writing policy papers in DC next door to Cato and Heritage and all the rest, in a decade or two. So at the moment I’m just holding out for opportunities like that. But if you have ideas for funding-constrained research right now, let me know!
And sure, I’d love to discuss/comment on that write-up!
If you have any confident thoughts, I’d be interested to hear which funding opportunities in the space seem most promising to you. (i.e. my question above was not rhetorical.) In particular, it is not obvious to me where the funding gaps are, and you seem likely to be better placed to know.
Also, I think there are some considerations which are 1-3 orders of magnitude more important than RTPT. Your post prompted me to write up a simple quantitative comparison of factors. Would you be interested in discussing/commenting at some point?
My current best guess happens to be that there aren’t great funding opportunities in the “priorities research” space—for a point of reference, GPI is still sitting on cash while it decides which economist(s) to recruit—but that there will be better funding opportunities over the next few years, as the infrastructure gets better set up and as the pipeline of young EA economists starts flowing. For example I’d actually be kind of surprised if there weren’t a “Parfit Institute” (or whatever it might be called), writing policy papers in DC next door to Cato and Heritage and all the rest, in a decade or two. So at the moment I’m just holding out for opportunities like that. But if you have ideas for funding-constrained research right now, let me know!
And sure, I’d love to discuss/comment on that write-up!