I suspect the crux might be that I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing if “the casual reader of the website doesn’t understand that 80k basically works on AGI”. E.g. if 80k adds value to someone as they go through the career guide, even if they don’ realise that “the organization strongly recommends AI over the rest, or that x-risk gets the lion’s share of organizational resources”, is there a problem?
I would be concerned if 80k was not adding value. E.g. I can imagine more salesly tactics that look like making a big song and dance about how much the reader needs their advice, without providing any actual guidance until they deliver the final pitch, where the reader is basically given the choice of signing up for 80k’s view/service, or looking for some alternative provider/resource that can help them. But I don’t think that that’s happening here.
I can also imagine being concerned if the service was not transparent until you were actually on the call, and then you received some sort of unsolicited cause prioritisation pitch. But again, I don’t think that’s what’s happening; as discussed, it’s pretty transparent on the advising page and cause prio page what they’re doing.
Yeah many of those things seem right to me.
I suspect the crux might be that I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing if “the casual reader of the website doesn’t understand that 80k basically works on AGI”. E.g. if 80k adds value to someone as they go through the career guide, even if they don’ realise that “the organization strongly recommends AI over the rest, or that x-risk gets the lion’s share of organizational resources”, is there a problem?
I would be concerned if 80k was not adding value. E.g. I can imagine more salesly tactics that look like making a big song and dance about how much the reader needs their advice, without providing any actual guidance until they deliver the final pitch, where the reader is basically given the choice of signing up for 80k’s view/service, or looking for some alternative provider/resource that can help them. But I don’t think that that’s happening here.
I can also imagine being concerned if the service was not transparent until you were actually on the call, and then you received some sort of unsolicited cause prioritisation pitch. But again, I don’t think that’s what’s happening; as discussed, it’s pretty transparent on the advising page and cause prio page what they’re doing.