I lean more towards the narrow EA path of impact, but not too narrow.
I guess I think it’s important to fund at least some non-Western groups in order to provide a check against any potential cultural biases that we have.
But it goes beyond that, people from another culture might come up with different ideas or approaches that we might consider, even if there isn’t an obvious direct line between their culture and idea.
Now this has to be balanced against the counterfactual use of resources, but at a certain point, there’s decreasing marginal returns from recruiting yet another Ivy League/Oxbridge grad. And our most likely cause of failure stops being that we don’t have enough of those.
I lean more towards the narrow EA path of impact, but not too narrow.
I guess I think it’s important to fund at least some non-Western groups in order to provide a check against any potential cultural biases that we have.
But it goes beyond that, people from another culture might come up with different ideas or approaches that we might consider, even if there isn’t an obvious direct line between their culture and idea.
Now this has to be balanced against the counterfactual use of resources, but at a certain point, there’s decreasing marginal returns from recruiting yet another Ivy League/Oxbridge grad. And our most likely cause of failure stops being that we don’t have enough of those.