I’m skeptical of this criteria ‘Selected posts to help us answer: how can we do the most good with our resources?’ For a start why not use the better-polling “selected posts that help us do more good”, which also helps with consistent CEA messaging
Mostly because I think that that’s a broader category, and I want to keep this one bounded.
These posts below for example are amazing (including classic posts), but don’t necessarily meet that criteria
I’ll give quick takes on each without rereading them (these are great examples, thanks!):
This would be included. I didn’t include it in this draft of the post, but ‘cause prioritisation’ is almost always featurable (if it is good). I want the Forum to be the place to find cause prio discussion.
I probably wouldn’t feature this. I love Julia’s motivational/pastoral posts and I think they deserve a lot of readers, but they are firmly in the community/ motivational category. I’m excluding that category because I want to encourage more cause prioritisation work in particular, and also because my current best guess is that people will still read this content even if it is less promoted on the Forum. I’ll be monitoring that—it’d be a real loss if posts like this ended up getting no readers.
I should probably explicitly say something about motivational posts in the criteria. I’ll include it in the next draft.
This likely wouldn’t be included because, although it names an important idea for effective altruists, I can’t see the path by which it influences the deployment of resources. This is without a reread though—if it is more about how to market EA than I remember then it might be featurable.
This is also a case where it would end up on the featured page anyway, because it would get over 100 karma.
This would be included. Without rereading it it seems clearly to be an argument that something needs more/ less resources.
I like these examples because they make clear some of the real trade-offs here, thanks for putting them together! Feel free to push me on this further, this is just a quick comment.
Nice detailed feedback, makes a lot of sense. The 100 Karma cuttoff makes sense to me too, although I think reaching 100 Karma might be harder if posts are not displayed by default on the front page (but I’m sure you’ll see that). Can always change the threshold...
Thanks Nick, good flags.
Mostly because I think that that’s a broader category, and I want to keep this one bounded.
I’ll give quick takes on each without rereading them (these are great examples, thanks!):
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wTXAbzbkAxZrLv5Cg/why-are-longtermists-so-much-less-focused-on-human
This would be included. I didn’t include it in this draft of the post, but ‘cause prioritisation’ is almost always featurable (if it is good). I want the Forum to be the place to find cause prio discussion.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XuNBJL3EHqhFKLEGn/impact-requires-implementation-what-dispensers-for-safe
I’m guessing this would also be included, it’s highlighting a general lesson for impartial altruists involved in global health.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CmGPp5p9RvTLuuzbt/aim-high-even-if-you-fall-short
I probably wouldn’t feature this. I love Julia’s motivational/pastoral posts and I think they deserve a lot of readers, but they are firmly in the community/ motivational category. I’m excluding that category because I want to encourage more cause prioritisation work in particular, and also because my current best guess is that people will still read this content even if it is less promoted on the Forum. I’ll be monitoring that—it’d be a real loss if posts like this ended up getting no readers.
I should probably explicitly say something about motivational posts in the criteria. I’ll include it in the next draft.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FpjQMYQmS3rWewZ83/effective-altruism-is-a-question-not-an-ideology
This likely wouldn’t be included because, although it names an important idea for effective altruists, I can’t see the path by which it influences the deployment of resources. This is without a reread though—if it is more about how to market EA than I remember then it might be featurable.
This is also a case where it would end up on the featured page anyway, because it would get over 100 karma.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MGTzcHtwxpL6iXLJd/if-far-uv-is-so-great-why-isn-t-it-everywhere
This would be included. Without rereading it it seems clearly to be an argument that something needs more/ less resources.
I like these examples because they make clear some of the real trade-offs here, thanks for putting them together! Feel free to push me on this further, this is just a quick comment.
Nice detailed feedback, makes a lot of sense. The 100 Karma cuttoff makes sense to me too, although I think reaching 100 Karma might be harder if posts are not displayed by default on the front page (but I’m sure you’ll see that). Can always change the threshold...