EA as a community has a distribution over people of values and world-views (which themselves are uncertain and can bayesianly be modeled as distributions).
Assuming everyone have already updated their values and world-view by virtue of epistemic modesty, each member of the community should want all the resources of the community to go a certain way.
That can include desires about the EA resource allocation mechanism.
The differences between individuals undoubtedly causes friction and resentment.
It seems like the EA community is incredible in it’s cooperative norms and low levels of unneeded politics.
There are concerns about how steady this state is.
Many thanks to anyone working hard to keep this so!
There’s bound to be a massive room for improvement, a clear goal of what would be the best outcome considering a distribution as above, a way of measuring where we’re at, an analysis of where we are heading under the current status (an implicit parliamentary model perhaps?), and suggestions for better mechanisms and norms that result from the analysis.
[a brief note on altruistic coordination in EA]
EA as a community has a distribution over people of values and world-views (which themselves are uncertain and can bayesianly be modeled as distributions).
Assuming everyone have already updated their values and world-view by virtue of epistemic modesty, each member of the community should want all the resources of the community to go a certain way.
That can include desires about the EA resource allocation mechanism.
The differences between individuals undoubtedly causes friction and resentment.
It seems like the EA community is incredible in it’s cooperative norms and low levels of unneeded politics.
There are concerns about how steady this state is.
Many thanks to anyone working hard to keep this so!
There’s bound to be a massive room for improvement, a clear goal of what would be the best outcome considering a distribution as above, a way of measuring where we’re at, an analysis of where we are heading under the current status (an implicit parliamentary model perhaps?), and suggestions for better mechanisms and norms that result from the analysis.
This 2015 post by Rob Wiblin (One of the top-voted in that year) is a nice example of how the community is actively cohesive