Can you say a bit about how you would think about blogs of people who already work in EA orgs, where their blogging is adjacent or related to their work (aka ‘the day job’)?
To elaborate, I have a bunch of ideas I’d like to write up relating to effective altruism and longtermism but I’ve been lacking a push to do this. So I’m quite excited about this prize as a motivation (excuse?) to finally get going. However, the stuff I’d write would be kinda in the Happier Lives Institute’s wheelhouse, except I’d be minded to do hotter, more personal takes. So, I’m not sure if this is the sort of thing the judges would be excited about, or it would seem weird to enter a competition for doing something that’s a bit like my day job—particularly as the blogs might eventually try to be grown into HLI working papers and/or academic papers. I couldn’t see anything about whether people have to be writing in a personal capacity, outside their normal hours, need to be doing it unpaid, and so on.
On a separate note, I wonder how much the organisers have thought about ‘funging’ and incentive risks, e.g. people blog instead of writing academic papers because there are now much higher rewards to the former than before.
Can you say a bit about how you would think about blogs of people who already work in EA orgs, where their blogging is adjacent or related to their work (aka ‘the day job’)?
To elaborate, I have a bunch of ideas I’d like to write up relating to effective altruism and longtermism but I’ve been lacking a push to do this. So I’m quite excited about this prize as a motivation (excuse?) to finally get going. However, the stuff I’d write would be kinda in the Happier Lives Institute’s wheelhouse, except I’d be minded to do hotter, more personal takes. So, I’m not sure if this is the sort of thing the judges would be excited about, or it would seem weird to enter a competition for doing something that’s a bit like my day job—particularly as the blogs might eventually try to be grown into HLI working papers and/or academic papers. I couldn’t see anything about whether people have to be writing in a personal capacity, outside their normal hours, need to be doing it unpaid, and so on.
On a separate note, I wonder how much the organisers have thought about ‘funging’ and incentive risks, e.g. people blog instead of writing academic papers because there are now much higher rewards to the former than before.