Scalably Using People or Scalably Using Labour or Task Y or something like that
Proposed description:
There are often discussions of how good or bad EA is at efficiently allocating many people to valuable work, the consequences of EA’s strengths or weaknesses on that front, how to improve, and how this all might change as EA grows.
See also Career Choice, Get Involved, Movement Strategy, Community Tools, Criticism (EA Movement), EA Hiring, and Markets for Altruism.
Notes on that description:
I’ll obviously add the links to the “See also” tags if I actually make the tag; I’m just being lazy here
Not sure all those “See also” tags are relevant enough to mention
That description is assuming the name is something like Scalably Using People.
Task Y is a somewhat different concept, and it’s less immediately obvious how the term links to the concept, so the description would need to be different.
Cool, given that, I’ve now made the tag. I’ve called it Scalably Using People rather than Task Y, with the key reason being that Alex originally described Task Y as being a single task. More generally, I think that the description of Task Y wouldn’t neatly cover things like the vetting-constrained discussion or Jan’s discussion of hierarchical network structures, and I’m hoping for this tag to cover things like that as well. So I see Task Y as a subset of what I’m hoping this tag will cover.
I’m definitely open to people suggesting alternative names, though.
Scalably Using People or Scalably Using Labour or Task Y or something like that
Proposed description:
Notes on that description:
I’ll obviously add the links to the “See also” tags if I actually make the tag; I’m just being lazy here
Not sure all those “See also” tags are relevant enough to mention
That description is assuming the name is something like Scalably Using People.
Task Y is a somewhat different concept, and it’s less immediately obvious how the term links to the concept, so the description would need to be different.
Posts that would warrant this tag include:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uWWsiBdnHXcpr7kWm/can-the-ea-community-copy-teach-for-america-looking-for-task
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HBKb3Y5mvb69PRHvP/dealing-with-network-constraints-my-model-of-ea-careers
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oNY76m8DDWFiLo7nH/what-to-do-with-people
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/G2Pfpkcwv3bJNF8o9/ea-is-vetting-constrained
Many of the posts that link to that post (see the “pingbacks” at the end of the post)
A sequence of small posts I’m working on
I think a bunch of other stuff on the Forum too
I’m pro. I’d call it Task Y, though I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a reason not to.
Cool, given that, I’ve now made the tag. I’ve called it Scalably Using People rather than Task Y, with the key reason being that Alex originally described Task Y as being a single task. More generally, I think that the description of Task Y wouldn’t neatly cover things like the vetting-constrained discussion or Jan’s discussion of hierarchical network structures, and I’m hoping for this tag to cover things like that as well. So I see Task Y as a subset of what I’m hoping this tag will cover.
I’m definitely open to people suggesting alternative names, though.