One question: I’m wondering why you say EAs not taking a specific action because it might harm our reputation (e.g., coming across as too elitist) is a risk (under “Unwillingness to trade reputation for impact”), while at the same time saying that coming across as too elitist is a risk (under “Internal disenchantment”). To me, these things seem in conflict with each other.
Yup, that seems like a fair critique. The taxonomies are messy and I would expect examples to overlap without respect for categorization. (I like thinking of the failure mode categorization more as overlapping clusters than discrete bins.)
I care more about the higher-level causes of failure within some cluster of failure, and “unwillingness to trade impact”still seems sufficiently different to me than “internal disenchantment,” even if I’d expect certain actions to move the needle on both.
Nice post! I’m looking forward to the next posts.
One question: I’m wondering why you say EAs not taking a specific action because it might harm our reputation (e.g., coming across as too elitist) is a risk (under “Unwillingness to trade reputation for impact”), while at the same time saying that coming across as too elitist is a risk (under “Internal disenchantment”). To me, these things seem in conflict with each other.
Yup, that seems like a fair critique. The taxonomies are messy and I would expect examples to overlap without respect for categorization. (I like thinking of the failure mode categorization more as overlapping clusters than discrete bins.)
I care more about the higher-level causes of failure within some cluster of failure, and “unwillingness to trade impact”still seems sufficiently different to me than “internal disenchantment,” even if I’d expect certain actions to move the needle on both.