I was trying to understand your argument, and suggested two potential interpretations.
there’s something odd about very altruistically capable people requiring very high salaries, lest they choose to go and do non-impactful jobs instead
Sound more like your classic corporate lawyer than an effective effective altruist
I don’t understand where you’re trying to go with these sorts of claims. I’m saying that I believe that compensation helps recruitment and similar, and therefore increase impact; and that I don’t think that higher compensation harms value-alignment to the extent that’s often claimed. How do the quoted claims relate to those arguments? And if you are trying to make some other argument, how does it influence impact?
I’m not sure about the fraction of monetised impact bit of that relevant. As someone who runs an org, I only have access to my budget, not the monetised impact—a job might have ‘£1m a year of impact’, but that’s um, more than 4x HLI’s budget. For someone with enormous resources, eg Open Phil, it might make more sense to think like this.
It’s relevant because orgs’ budgets aren’t fixed. Funders should take the kind of reasoning I outline here into account when they decide how much to fund an org.
I’ve been very clear that I don’t have non-anecdotal evidence, and called for more research in my post.
I was trying to understand your argument, and suggested two potential interpretations.
I don’t understand where you’re trying to go with these sorts of claims. I’m saying that I believe that compensation helps recruitment and similar, and therefore increase impact; and that I don’t think that higher compensation harms value-alignment to the extent that’s often claimed. How do the quoted claims relate to those arguments? And if you are trying to make some other argument, how does it influence impact?
It’s relevant because orgs’ budgets aren’t fixed. Funders should take the kind of reasoning I outline here into account when they decide how much to fund an org.
I’ve been very clear that I don’t have non-anecdotal evidence, and called for more research in my post.