If I were an onlooker I might be thinking “hmm looks like these people are trying to settle difficult EA questions in certain positions and are going to advertise those as the correct answers when there is still a lot of unsettled debate”
I think a good answer to the prompt would acknowledge the debate in EA and that people have different views.
I ought to clarify: For the purposes we’ll be using our FAQ for we want to be outlining and defending our urgent longtermist view. That’s why in the prompt I’m looking for answers that fall on one particular side of the view (i.e. the side that best represents the views of our organisation and goals which are urgent longtermist) (if I weren’t doing this bounty I would just be writing an answer that fell on this side myself! And I’m looking to outsource my work here)
I think this is a very different set of goals and views that the EA movement as a whole, and we’re not trying to represent those—sorry for any confusion! I should have specified more clearly what our use case of the FAQ is. For example, I think this would probably be bad as a FAQ on EA.org.
I also think that a lot of these questions will be unsettled. Nevertheless for this bounty I want people to be able to indicate their tentative best guess answer to the question in a decision relevant way without getting caught in the failure mode of just providing a survey of different views.
I think that the valuable discussion and debate over the answers to the question should continue elsewhere :)
I have now made some small clarifications to the original post. If we decide to continue with the bounty program then I’ll try and do more clarifications to our aims and why we’re doing it this way :)
Good question!
If I were an onlooker I might be thinking “hmm looks like these people are trying to settle difficult EA questions in certain positions and are going to advertise those as the correct answers when there is still a lot of unsettled debate”
I think a good answer to the prompt would acknowledge the debate in EA and that people have different views.
I ought to clarify: For the purposes we’ll be using our FAQ for we want to be outlining and defending our urgent longtermist view. That’s why in the prompt I’m looking for answers that fall on one particular side of the view (i.e. the side that best represents the views of our organisation and goals which are urgent longtermist) (if I weren’t doing this bounty I would just be writing an answer that fell on this side myself! And I’m looking to outsource my work here)
I think this is a very different set of goals and views that the EA movement as a whole, and we’re not trying to represent those—sorry for any confusion! I should have specified more clearly what our use case of the FAQ is. For example, I think this would probably be bad as a FAQ on EA.org.
I also think that a lot of these questions will be unsettled. Nevertheless for this bounty I want people to be able to indicate their tentative best guess answer to the question in a decision relevant way without getting caught in the failure mode of just providing a survey of different views.
I think that the valuable discussion and debate over the answers to the question should continue elsewhere :)
I have now made some small clarifications to the original post. If we decide to continue with the bounty program then I’ll try and do more clarifications to our aims and why we’re doing it this way :)