Hey Michelle, I authored that particular part and I think what you’ve said is a fair point. As you said, the point was to identify the Bay as an outlier in terms of the amount of support for AI, not declare AI as an outlier as a cause area.
The article in general seems to put quite a bit of emphasis on the fact that poverty came out as the most favoured cause.
I don’t know that this is necessarily true beyond reporting what is actually there. When poverty is favored by more than double the number of people who favor the next most popular cause area (graph #1), favored by more people than a handful of other causes combined, and disliked the least, those facts need to be put into perspective.
If anything, I’d say we put a fair amount of emphasis on how EAs are coming around on AI, and how resistance toward putting resources toward AI has dropped significantly.
We could speculate about how future-oriented certain cause areas may be, and how to aggregate or disaggregate them in future surveys. We’ve made a note to consider that for 2018.
I don’t know that this is necessarily true beyond reporting what is actually there. When poverty is favored by more than double the number of people who favor the next most popular cause area (graph #1), favored by more people than a handful of other causes combined, and disliked the least, those facts need to be put into perspective.
I agree—my comment was in the context of the false graph; given the true one, the emphasis on poverty seems warranted.
Hey Michelle, I authored that particular part and I think what you’ve said is a fair point. As you said, the point was to identify the Bay as an outlier in terms of the amount of support for AI, not declare AI as an outlier as a cause area.
I don’t know that this is necessarily true beyond reporting what is actually there. When poverty is favored by more than double the number of people who favor the next most popular cause area (graph #1), favored by more people than a handful of other causes combined, and disliked the least, those facts need to be put into perspective.
If anything, I’d say we put a fair amount of emphasis on how EAs are coming around on AI, and how resistance toward putting resources toward AI has dropped significantly.
We could speculate about how future-oriented certain cause areas may be, and how to aggregate or disaggregate them in future surveys. We’ve made a note to consider that for 2018.
Thanks Tee.
I agree—my comment was in the context of the false graph; given the true one, the emphasis on poverty seems warranted.