Last nontrivial update: 2024-02-01.
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I’m interested in ways to increase the EV of the EA community by mitigating downside risks from EA related activities. Without claiming originality, I think that:
Complex cluelessness is a common phenomenon in the domains of anthropogenic x-risks and meta-EA (due to an abundance of crucial considerations). It is often very hard to judge whether a given intervention is net-positive or net-negative.
The EA community is made out of humans. Humans’ judgement tends to be influenced by biases and self-deception. That is a serious source of risk, considering the previous point.
Some potential mitigations involve improving some aspects of how EA funding works, e.g. with respect to conflicts of interest. Please don’t interpret my interest in such mitigations as accusations of corruption etc.
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