MichaelA🔸 comments on What are novel major insights from longtermist macrostrategy or global priorities research found since 2015?

[MichaelA🔸]

Interesting, thanks. I’m not sure whether I overall agree, but I think this glimpse of your models on this topic will be useful to me.

One clarifying question:

Instead of having 10 shallow takes on immediately actionable question X, I’d rather have 10 thorough takes on different subquestions Y_1, …, Y_10

My first thought was “But wait, wouldn’t 10 thorough takes take more time than 10 shallow takes, making this comparison unfair?” But now I think maybe you meant both sets of investigations to take a similar amount of time, but the former to be “shallow” in relation to the larger topic—i.e., the “shallow takes” involve the same amount of total analysis as the “thorough takes”, but they’re analysing such a big topic that they can only provide a shallow look at each component. Is that right?

[Max_Daniel]

the “shallow takes” involve the same amount of total analysis as the “thorough takes”, but they’re analysing such a big topic that they can only provide a shallow look at each component

Yes, that’s what I had in mind. Thanks for clarifying!

[MichaelA🔸]

I’m confused—did you make this comment in the wrong place?

[Max_Daniel]

No, but there was a copy and paste error that made the comment unintelligible. Edited now. Thanks for flagging!