Also the direction of ALERT is generally more on “doing”. Doing seems often very different from forecasting, often needs different people—part of the relevant skills is plausibly even anticorrelated.
Y’all are fully complementary I think. From Linch’s proposal:
So the appropriate structure of an elite Forecasting Center might be to pair it up with a elite crisis response unit, possibly in a network/constellation model such that most people are very part-time before urgent crises, such that the additional foresight is guaranteed to be acted on, rather than tossing the forecasts to the rest of the movement (whether decisionmakers or community members) to be acted on later.
Also the direction of ALERT is generally more on “doing”. Doing seems often very different from forecasting, often needs different people—part of the relevant skills is plausibly even anticorrelated.
Y’all are fully complementary I think. From Linch’s proposal: