So what I specifically meant was: It’s interesting that the current leadership probably thinks that CSER is valuable (e.g., valuable enough to keep working at it, rather than directing their efforts somewhere else, and presumably valuable enough to absorb EA funding and talent). This presents a tricky updating problem, where I should probably average my own impressions from my shallow review with their (probably more informed) perspective. But in the review, I didn’t do that, hence the “unmitigated inside view” label.
Hmmm, this surprises me a bit because doesn’t it apply to pretty much all of your evaluations on this list? Presumably for each of them, the leadership of the org has somewhat different opinions than your independent impression, and your overall view should be an average of the two. I didn’t get the impression that you were averaging your impression with those of other org’s leadership.
So what I specifically meant was: It’s interesting that the current leadership probably thinks that CSER is valuable (e.g., valuable enough to keep working at it, rather than directing their efforts somewhere else, and presumably valuable enough to absorb EA funding and talent). This presents a tricky updating problem, where I should probably average my own impressions from my shallow review with their (probably more informed) perspective. But in the review, I didn’t do that, hence the “unmitigated inside view” label.
Hmmm, this surprises me a bit because doesn’t it apply to pretty much all of your evaluations on this list? Presumably for each of them, the leadership of the org has somewhat different opinions than your independent impression, and your overall view should be an average of the two. I didn’t get the impression that you were averaging your impression with those of other org’s leadership.
Sure, but it was particularly salient to me in this case because the evaluation was so negative
Ah, OK, that makes sense.