Yes. I am at-all interested in outcomes such that I will regard myself as having failed a sanity check if very few people go on to do ambitious, impactful work after engaging with my events/programs/groups. But I am very bound to being permissive about what counts here. Thoughtfulness about high impact is the bar, not my EV calculation of impact.
To put it in the form of a critique, I think too many community building programs adopt metrics like “number of participants who go into roles at AIM, MATS, GovAI, etc.” and that this is too prescriptive and discourages people from really forming their own world models in an EA context.
My metric is whether I’m impressed with the pushback I get on my takes when I go into these spaces or whether I’m learning new and plausibly very important things about big problems.
Yes. I am at-all interested in outcomes such that I will regard myself as having failed a sanity check if very few people go on to do ambitious, impactful work after engaging with my events/programs/groups. But I am very bound to being permissive about what counts here. Thoughtfulness about high impact is the bar, not my EV calculation of impact.
To put it in the form of a critique, I think too many community building programs adopt metrics like “number of participants who go into roles at AIM, MATS, GovAI, etc.” and that this is too prescriptive and discourages people from really forming their own world models in an EA context.
My metric is whether I’m impressed with the pushback I get on my takes when I go into these spaces or whether I’m learning new and plausibly very important things about big problems.
Makes sense. Also: great post.