Do you think this is evidence that OpenPhil’s GCR staff/team is doing less cause prioritization now than they were before? The specific things you say don’t seem to be much evidence either way about this (and also not much evidence about whether or not they actually need to be doing more cause prioritization on the margin). Maybe you have further reason to believe this is bad?
I imagine there must have been a bunch of other major changes around Coefficient that aren’t yet well understood externally. This caught me a bit off guard.
What makes you expect this and why (assuming you do) do you expect these changes to be negative?
I don’t mean to sound too negative on this—I did just say “a bit sad” on that one specific point.
Do I think that CE is doing worse or better overall? It seems like Coefficient has been making a bunch of changes, and I don’t feel like I have a good handle on the details. They’ve also been expanding a fair bit. I’d naively assume that a huge amount of work is going on behind the scenes to hire and grow, and that this is putting CE in a better place on average.
I would expect this (the GCR prio team change) to be some evidence that specific ambitious approaches to GCR prioritization are more limited now. I think there are a bunch of large projects that could be done in this area that would probably take a team to do well, and right now it’s not clear who else could do such projects.
Bigger-picture, I personally think GCR prioritization/strategy is under-investigated, but I respect that others have different priorities.
Do you think this is evidence that OpenPhil’s GCR staff/team is doing less cause prioritization now than they were before? The specific things you say don’t seem to be much evidence either way about this (and also not much evidence about whether or not they actually need to be doing more cause prioritization on the margin). Maybe you have further reason to believe this is bad?
What makes you expect this and why (assuming you do) do you expect these changes to be negative?
I don’t mean to sound too negative on this—I did just say “a bit sad” on that one specific point.
Do I think that CE is doing worse or better overall? It seems like Coefficient has been making a bunch of changes, and I don’t feel like I have a good handle on the details. They’ve also been expanding a fair bit. I’d naively assume that a huge amount of work is going on behind the scenes to hire and grow, and that this is putting CE in a better place on average.
I would expect this (the GCR prio team change) to be some evidence that specific ambitious approaches to GCR prioritization are more limited now. I think there are a bunch of large projects that could be done in this area that would probably take a team to do well, and right now it’s not clear who else could do such projects.
Bigger-picture, I personally think GCR prioritization/strategy is under-investigated, but I respect that others have different priorities.