I wanted to use these tags when asking this question, but they don’t seem to exist.
There is a tag on cause prioritization. But I think it’d be more useful if that tag was focused on content that is directly relevant for prioritizing between causes, e.g. “here is why I think cause A is more tractable than cause B” or “here’s a framework for assessing the neglectedness of a cause”. Some global priorities or macrostrategy research has this property, but not all of it. E.g. I think it’d be a bit of a stretch to apply the cause prioritization label to this (amazing!) post on Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox.
I’ve now made a tag for Global Priorities Research. I currently think that anything we would’ve wanted to give a Macrostrategy tag to can just be given a Global Priorities Research tag instead, such that we don’t need a Macrostrategy tag, but feel free to discuss that in the “Discussion” page attached to the GPR tag.
I’m tentatively in favour of Macrostrategy. A big issue is that I don’t have a crisp sense of what macrostrategy is meant to be about, and conversations I’ve had suggests that a lot of people who work on it feel the same. So I’d have a hard time deciding what to give that tag to. But I do think it’s a useful concept, and the example post you mention does seem to me a good example of something that is macrostrategy and isn’t cause prioritisation.
I feel like a tag for Global Priorities Research is probably unnecessary once we have tags for both Cause Prioritisation and Macrostrategy? But I could be wrong. (Also I’m just offering my views as inputs; I have no gate-keeping role and anyone can make whatever tags they want.)
Global priorities research and macrostrategy.
I wanted to use these tags when asking this question, but they don’t seem to exist.
There is a tag on cause prioritization. But I think it’d be more useful if that tag was focused on content that is directly relevant for prioritizing between causes, e.g. “here is why I think cause A is more tractable than cause B” or “here’s a framework for assessing the neglectedness of a cause”. Some global priorities or macrostrategy research has this property, but not all of it. E.g. I think it’d be a bit of a stretch to apply the cause prioritization label to this (amazing!) post on Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox.
I’ve now made a tag for Global Priorities Research. I currently think that anything we would’ve wanted to give a Macrostrategy tag to can just be given a Global Priorities Research tag instead, such that we don’t need a Macrostrategy tag, but feel free to discuss that in the “Discussion” page attached to the GPR tag.
I’m tentatively in favour of Macrostrategy. A big issue is that I don’t have a crisp sense of what macrostrategy is meant to be about, and conversations I’ve had suggests that a lot of people who work on it feel the same. So I’d have a hard time deciding what to give that tag to. But I do think it’s a useful concept, and the example post you mention does seem to me a good example of something that is macrostrategy and isn’t cause prioritisation.
I feel like a tag for Global Priorities Research is probably unnecessary once we have tags for both Cause Prioritisation and Macrostrategy? But I could be wrong. (Also I’m just offering my views as inputs; I have no gate-keeping role and anyone can make whatever tags they want.)