The Case Against Randomista Development was exceptionally well received. Do you know of any direct impact it had? (say in terms of money moved or follow-up research done). Generally, how do you think about the impact it has?
Inside EA: The post was the most commented on research post on the EA forum, and roughly 10k in views. It also had 26 “citations” (see’pingback’ on the post).
How much do you think crowdfunding can grow? Do you think that “donations available through crowdfunding” is a limiting factor for expanding your work?
Thanks for the response and for taking the time to add references! I’m glad to see two EA orgs have put substantial effort into this, and it’s terrific that it had such a direct and potentially impactful impact on someone’s career (and I’d bet that there are many others undocumented).
Inside EA: The post was the most commented on research post on the EA forum, and roughly 10k in views. It also had 26 “citations” (see’pingback’ on the post).
I talked to an analyst at Charity Entrepreneurship last year who considered the growth arguments charity incubation program. Founders pledge also did some research on it.
A few EA student groups discussed the piece.
Outside EA there was not much of a response on social media, perhaps because within economics the ideas are not that novel. Tyler Cowen linked to it, Pritchett discussed it on his blog, but not that much apart from that. Someone wrote he ran for New Hampshire state senate on a republican ticket partly because the post convinced him of the importance of policy, but lost by narrow margin. Republicans still flipped the state senate by four seats. Still, cluelessness is a bit scary.
I’m deprioritizing the crowdfunding to focus more on research, but the global crowdfunding market is ~$15bn and forecast to triple in the next 5 years.
I have a few more thoughts on donations in EA, that I hope to write up at some point.
Thanks for the response and for taking the time to add references! I’m glad to see two EA orgs have put substantial effort into this, and it’s terrific that it had such a direct and potentially impactful impact on someone’s career (and I’d bet that there are many others undocumented).