I think this is an excellent idea and one that I’ve wanted to exist for quite a few years now! My interest in this area stems from wanting to surface compelling strategies and projects that don’t receive sufficient attention because they’re not currently “trending” in the movement. By explicitly laying out theories of change and crowdsourcing estimates for each part of those theories of change, this makes it much easier for people to to understand proposals, identify how various people and groups in the community think about a proposal, and compare the expected impact of various strategies and projects against each other.
Right now, people submit ideas and projects on the EA Forum, but that doesn’t clearly translate to action. But if it’s pretty clear that specific individuals, sub-groups in the community, or the community at large think a theory of change is promising, I think this has the potential to greatly increase awareness and the likelihood of execution of promising proposals.
I think this is an excellent idea and one that I’ve wanted to exist for quite a few years now! My interest in this area stems from wanting to surface compelling strategies and projects that don’t receive sufficient attention because they’re not currently “trending” in the movement. By explicitly laying out theories of change and crowdsourcing estimates for each part of those theories of change, this makes it much easier for people to to understand proposals, identify how various people and groups in the community think about a proposal, and compare the expected impact of various strategies and projects against each other.
Right now, people submit ideas and projects on the EA Forum, but that doesn’t clearly translate to action. But if it’s pretty clear that specific individuals, sub-groups in the community, or the community at large think a theory of change is promising, I think this has the potential to greatly increase awareness and the likelihood of execution of promising proposals.