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 don’t know how many bloggers may have applied to EA Funds/been 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/newsletters/etc. that you’d fund if you had the money to run a Tyler Cowen-like initiative for EA writing?
Yeah I don’t know whether/when grants or prizes are better, or exactly what the optimal initial scale is, although presumably you would want to go beyond $22k/yr once it has been demonstrated to work. One would also want to look at why previous prizes, such as Paul’s alignment prizes didn’t work out.
I guess I would be granting to individuals similar to those who “I’ve enjoyed reading” according to the post above. I also wonder if someone could get Zach Weinersmith to do something EA, given how much related stuff he’s 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 don’t know how many bloggers may have applied to EA Funds/been 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/newsletters/etc. that you’d fund if you had the money to run a Tyler Cowen-like initiative for EA writing?
Yeah I don’t know whether/when grants or prizes are better, or exactly what the optimal initial scale is, although presumably you would want to go beyond $22k/yr once it has been demonstrated to work. One would also want to look at why previous prizes, such as Paul’s alignment prizes didn’t work out.
I guess I would be granting to individuals similar to those who “I’ve enjoyed reading” according to the post above. I also wonder if someone could get Zach Weinersmith to do something EA, given how much related stuff he’s already done previously.