I definitely think there’s room for improvement! In particular, I’d be interested to see people who have or want to obtain Job X write about their assessment of the job’s impact—ideally on this very website, though a site cataloging all such reviews and presenting them with nice formatting could also be useful.
(The Forum is a good place to try “content-only” versions of this kind of idea while features like dynamic sorting and web scraping get figured out.)
I’m not sure crowdsourcing from people without direct interest would work very well, but that’s largely based on my experience with other EA crowdsourcing projects; it’s easy to get initial enthusiasm, but few such projects keep going over the long run.
More measures of job impact are on my long list of “things I wish existed, but which seem not to be getting generated by EA’s collective consciousness”. If people can be convinced to make more of them exist, that would be wonderful, but I expect that getting solid writeups will be difficult.
That said, I hope you convince people to try! I’ll definitely read any job-impact posts published on the Forum, and I will appreciate the authors’ efforts, even if they only make loose/”law of large numbers” estimates.
I definitely think there’s room for improvement! In particular, I’d be interested to see people who have or want to obtain Job X write about their assessment of the job’s impact—ideally on this very website, though a site cataloging all such reviews and presenting them with nice formatting could also be useful.
(The Forum is a good place to try “content-only” versions of this kind of idea while features like dynamic sorting and web scraping get figured out.)
I’m not sure crowdsourcing from people without direct interest would work very well, but that’s largely based on my experience with other EA crowdsourcing projects; it’s easy to get initial enthusiasm, but few such projects keep going over the long run.
More measures of job impact are on my long list of “things I wish existed, but which seem not to be getting generated by EA’s collective consciousness”. If people can be convinced to make more of them exist, that would be wonderful, but I expect that getting solid writeups will be difficult.
That said, I hope you convince people to try! I’ll definitely read any job-impact posts published on the Forum, and I will appreciate the authors’ efforts, even if they only make loose/”law of large numbers” estimates.