MichaelA🔸 answers Is anyone coordinating amateurs to do cause prioritization research in groups?

[MichaelA🔸]

I’m not aware of anyone doing precisely this. But here are a couple quick pointers to potentially relevant things:

• ALLFED coordinate volunteers to do research, and I believe some/​many of these volunteers are “amateurs”, and I’d guess that some of this research occurs in groups and could be called “cause prioritisation” (though I’m not certain)

  • There’s some info on their volunteer program here

  • I’d guess ALLFED would be happy to talk to people about what they’ve learned from this

• There’s a group called READI coordinating a mix of amateur and professional researchers to do EA research, though not necessarily precisely “cause prioritisation research”

  • Here’s their site

  • One of the coordinators is Peter Slattery, and I expect he’d be happy to talk to people about their work

• I think Edo Arad has been involved in some relevant efforts

  • See their comments here

• The various EA research coordination efforts related to COVID might provide useful evidence on how successful this sort of thing is in general, and how best to do it

  • This wouldn’t be about cause prioritisation, but some lessons might generalise

• I think someone is planning to or already providing country-specific EA career advice in France, similar to what Brian Tan describes for the Philippines

  • If people want to hear more, I can message the person who I think was planning/​doing this and see if they’re happy to give some public update or get in touch

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Thanks so much! I’m checking out these references now.