This does seem like a very good initiative, though I wonder whether grant funding might make more sense than small prizes. Jason Crawford got $75,000 from Open Phil (and also an EA Funds grant), though I donât know how many bloggers may have applied to EA Funds/âbeen looked at by Open Phil and then turned down.
With Prize funding, we could support roughly $22,000 in grant funds per year, which could provide solid incentives to⌠a dozen bloggers, maybe? Something to think on.
Are there any blogs/ânewsletters/âetc. that youâd fund if you had the money to run a Tyler Cowen-like initiative for EA writing?
Yeah I donât know whether/âwhen grants or prizes are better, or exactly what the optimal initial scale is, although presumably you would want to go beyond $22k/âyr once it has been demonstrated to work. One would also want to look at why previous prizes, such as Paulâs alignment prizes didnât work out.
I guess I would be granting to individuals similar to those who âIâve enjoyed readingâ according to the post above. I also wonder if someone could get Zach Weinersmith to do something EA, given how much related stuff heâs already done previously.
This does seem like a very good initiative, though I wonder whether grant funding might make more sense than small prizes. Jason Crawford got $75,000 from Open Phil (and also an EA Funds grant), though I donât know how many bloggers may have applied to EA Funds/âbeen looked at by Open Phil and then turned down.
With Prize funding, we could support roughly $22,000 in grant funds per year, which could provide solid incentives to⌠a dozen bloggers, maybe? Something to think on.
Are there any blogs/ânewsletters/âetc. that youâd fund if you had the money to run a Tyler Cowen-like initiative for EA writing?
Yeah I donât know whether/âwhen grants or prizes are better, or exactly what the optimal initial scale is, although presumably you would want to go beyond $22k/âyr once it has been demonstrated to work. One would also want to look at why previous prizes, such as Paulâs alignment prizes didnât work out.
I guess I would be granting to individuals similar to those who âIâve enjoyed readingâ according to the post above. I also wonder if someone could get Zach Weinersmith to do something EA, given how much related stuff heâs already done previously.