Not that my vote counts for a lot, but I think it would be worthwhile for EA-aligned or alignedish sources to fund distillation / simplication of thoughtful criticism that is currently in a too-technical or other form that is hard to access for many people who would benefit from reading it. That seems like pretty low-hanging fruit, and making extant work more accessible doesn’t really implicate some of the potential concerns and challenges of commissioning new criticism. I wasn’t immediately able to find the papers you referenced on mobile, but my vague recollection of other GPI working papers is that accessibility could be a challenge for a bright but very generalist reader.
To operationalize: I don’t have the money to fairly fund a paper’s author—or an advanced grad student—distilling a technical paper into something at the level of several blog posts like the ones on your blog. But it’s the kind of thing I’d personally be willing to fund if there were enough people willing to share in the cost (definition of “enough” is dependent on financial specifics).
Not that my vote counts for a lot, but I think it would be worthwhile for EA-aligned or alignedish sources to fund distillation / simplication of thoughtful criticism that is currently in a too-technical or other form that is hard to access for many people who would benefit from reading it. That seems like pretty low-hanging fruit, and making extant work more accessible doesn’t really implicate some of the potential concerns and challenges of commissioning new criticism. I wasn’t immediately able to find the papers you referenced on mobile, but my vague recollection of other GPI working papers is that accessibility could be a challenge for a bright but very generalist reader.
To operationalize: I don’t have the money to fairly fund a paper’s author—or an advanced grad student—distilling a technical paper into something at the level of several blog posts like the ones on your blog. But it’s the kind of thing I’d personally be willing to fund if there were enough people willing to share in the cost (definition of “enough” is dependent on financial specifics).