My key takeaway was that the longer the timescale we care about doing good over, the better research is relative to carrying out existing interventions. This is because there is a greater period over which we would gain from a better intervention.
As someone with long timescales I’m therefore very on board with more research!
Not sure how useful this is but I tried to develop a model to help us decide between carrying out our best existing interventions and carrying out research into potentially better interventions: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jp3yaQczFWk7yiNXz/to-fund-research-or-not-to-fund-research-that-is-the
My key takeaway was that the longer the timescale we care about doing good over, the better research is relative to carrying out existing interventions. This is because there is a greater period over which we would gain from a better intervention.
As someone with long timescales I’m therefore very on board with more research!