I was curious how the “popularity” of the ITN factors has changed in EA recently. In short: Mentions of “importance” have become slightly more popular, and both “neglectedness” and “tractability” have become slightly less popular, by ~2-6 percentage points.
I don’t think this method is strong enough to make conclusions, but it does track my perception of a vibe-shift towards considering importance more than the other two factors.
Searching the EA forum for the words importance/neglectedness/tractability (in quotation marks for exact matches) in the last year yields 454/87/110 (in percentages 69%/13%/17%) results, for important/neglected/tractable it’s 1249/311/152 (73%/18%/9%).
When searching for all time the numbers for importance/neglectedness/tractability are 2824/761/858 (in percentages 63%/17%/19%) results, for important/neglected/tractable it’s 7956/2002/1129 (71%/18%/10%). I didn’t find a way to exclude results from the last year, unfortunately.
I was curious how the “popularity” of the ITN factors has changed in EA recently. In short: Mentions of “importance” have become slightly more popular, and both “neglectedness” and “tractability” have become slightly less popular, by ~2-6 percentage points.
I don’t think this method is strong enough to make conclusions, but it does track my perception of a vibe-shift towards considering importance more than the other two factors.
Searching the EA forum for the words importance/neglectedness/tractability (in quotation marks for exact matches) in the last year yields 454/87/110 (in percentages 69%/13%/17%) results, for important/neglected/tractable it’s 1249/311/152 (73%/18%/9%).
When searching for all time the numbers for importance/neglectedness/tractability are 2824/761/858 (in percentages 63%/17%/19%) results, for important/neglected/tractable it’s 7956/2002/1129 (71%/18%/10%). I didn’t find a way to exclude results from the last year, unfortunately.