(I do wonder if there’s an effect where because we communicate our overall views so much, we become a more obvious/noticeable target to criticize.)
To be clear, the criticisms I make in the post and comments apply to all grantmakers I mentioned in the post except for CE.
Well, I haven’t read CE’s reports. Have you?
I have skimmed some, but the vast majority of my donations have been going to AI safety interventions (via LTFF). I may read CE’s reports in more detail in the futute, as I have been moving away from AI safety to animal welfare as the most promising cause area.
I think you have a procedure-focused view where the important thing is that articles are written, regardless of whether they’re read.
I do not care about transparency per se[1], but I think there is usually a correlation between it and cost-effectiveness (for reasons like the ones you mentioned inside parentheses). So, a priori, lower transparency updates me towards lower cost-effectiveness.
We’ve started working on this, but no promises.
Cool!
My guess is that making public the rejected applications is more valuable than accepted ones, eg on Manifund.
I can see this being the case, as people currently get to know about most accepted aplications, but nothing about the rejected ones.
To be clear, the criticisms I make in the post and comments apply to all grantmakers I mentioned in the post except for CE.
I have skimmed some, but the vast majority of my donations have been going to AI safety interventions (via LTFF). I may read CE’s reports in more detail in the futute, as I have been moving away from AI safety to animal welfare as the most promising cause area.
I do not care about transparency per se[1], but I think there is usually a correlation between it and cost-effectiveness (for reasons like the ones you mentioned inside parentheses). So, a priori, lower transparency updates me towards lower cost-effectiveness.
Cool!
I can see this being the case, as people currently get to know about most accepted aplications, but nothing about the rejected ones.
I fully endorse expected total hedonistic utilitarianism, so I only intrinsically value/disvalue positive/negative conscious experiences.