If there is a problem with EA efforts/funding re: alignment, this kind of discussion seems very important. Hopefully we can flag and resolve
I’m always a little of concerned with people identifying a problem, and catastrophising . I’m often concerned this occurs when discussing management or skill gap related to bottlenecks in EA. I am not sure it is relevant here, but maybe
I suspect, similar to the global health space, most interventions (i.e. setting up a co-working office) will be net neutral. This probably provides a good argument for taking ToC’s and impact and evaluation more seriously.
I disagree with harsh comment’s about WWOTF. I think promoting the book was a great bet, just high variance. I agree the Precipice was a better book, and it would have been great if it gotten promoted to the same extent. But it’s not action relevant since you can’t release a book twice. I think CEA and Will where trying to be ambitious and “shooting their shot”. It’s sad we discourage this. [Note: I do think from a community health/fairness perspective, things were weird. But this can be fixed retrospectively by promoting other philosophers more, and Will less, as looks to be happening (will didn’t speak at EAG Bay)]
Some loose thoughts
If there is a problem with EA efforts/funding re: alignment, this kind of discussion seems very important. Hopefully we can flag and resolve
I’m always a little of concerned with people identifying a problem, and catastrophising . I’m often concerned this occurs when discussing management or skill gap related to bottlenecks in EA. I am not sure it is relevant here, but maybe
I suspect, similar to the global health space, most interventions (i.e. setting up a co-working office) will be net neutral. This probably provides a good argument for taking ToC’s and impact and evaluation more seriously.
I disagree with harsh comment’s about WWOTF. I think promoting the book was a great bet, just high variance. I agree the Precipice was a better book, and it would have been great if it gotten promoted to the same extent. But it’s not action relevant since you can’t release a book twice. I think CEA and Will where trying to be ambitious and “shooting their shot”. It’s sad we discourage this. [Note: I do think from a community health/fairness perspective, things were weird. But this can be fixed retrospectively by promoting other philosophers more, and Will less, as looks to be happening (will didn’t speak at EAG Bay)]