That said, the ordering in the shortlist in this post is a touch confusing—it doesn’t seem to map to the total scores in your spreadsheet? e.g. AI scores as equal 4th-6th most important in your spreadsheet, but is listed 1st in the short list. Meanwhile nuclear war and pandemic risk score as equal 1st-3rd, but are listed 9th and 10th in the shortlist. I wonder if it would make more sense to list the options that scored the highest first (as presumably, they should be prioritised the most)?
Hi Jack, Thanks for the comment! We decided to list it alphabetically in the post. Although some shortlisted items rated higher overall, we felt that the post shouldn’t make too hard of a distinction—mostly because it’s a relatively simple rating system, so we didn’t want to give the impression that we are definitively rating some as higher than others. I’ll edit the post just to make that clear.
This was a great post! Really enjoyed reading it!
That said, the ordering in the shortlist in this post is a touch confusing—it doesn’t seem to map to the total scores in your spreadsheet? e.g. AI scores as equal 4th-6th most important in your spreadsheet, but is listed 1st in the short list. Meanwhile nuclear war and pandemic risk score as equal 1st-3rd, but are listed 9th and 10th in the shortlist. I wonder if it would make more sense to list the options that scored the highest first (as presumably, they should be prioritised the most)?
Hi Jack, Thanks for the comment! We decided to list it alphabetically in the post. Although some shortlisted items rated higher overall, we felt that the post shouldn’t make too hard of a distinction—mostly because it’s a relatively simple rating system, so we didn’t want to give the impression that we are definitively rating some as higher than others. I’ll edit the post just to make that clear.
Ahhhh I see! Thanks for clarifying!
And thanks again—this was a great read.