I’m a product manager with a software, data science, and healthcare background. I worked on the EA Forum from 2022-2023, and previously spent 8 years as a software engineer and product manager in healthcare tech.
Sharang Phadke
If anyone has insights about what they find themselves marking as “most important” and want to share them with me, I would love to hear more about your ideas. Our goal with this is to learn how we can encourage more of the most valuable content, and your opinion is valuable!
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Subforums will allow two types of posts:
“discussions”, which are more casual and will only appear on the subforum
“posts”, which are simply regular posts with the tag that the subforum uses—these can appear on the Frontpage as well as the subofurm if the user selects this option (it is selected by default)
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Thanks Matt, noted!
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I’d recommend getting in touch with the folks at [Generation Pledge] (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/generation-pledge), who focus on helping inheritors think through how to use their resources for good. Just send Sid an email or message on the forum!
I’m curious if anyone has tried experimentally evaluating what messaging works. It seems like this new lab in NYC will be doing just this sort of work, so I’ll be following along with them: https://www.eapsychology.org/
Thanks for the feedback! I do think we want to rethink our information architecture once we hire and onboard a designer, who is coming soon!
Thanks for this suggestion and for the examples. I’m going to add this to our list, I do think something better than “this page doesn’t exist” is probably better.
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Re: value alignment, that’s a great point, it looks like I fell victim to a bit of loss aversion! (I imagine I’m not alone)
Thanks for this great response.
Im really curious about your work to give donors the tools to choose between evaluators based on their values.
One big difference between investment funds and charitable funds is that lay people can at least evaluate funds on some basic metrics such as market returns versus a benchmark. Both for accountability and for the purpose of aligning charity fund/ evaluator chooses with values, some further tooling seems valuable.
Do you have any comments on the accountability piece?
Finally, I would add another downside of lotteries, which is that donors need to trust that most participants will have similar values to them, and the knowledge / skills to do research. This trust seems easier to grant to evaluators or funds.
Oh I really like this, and I’ve had some similar ideas. Will make a note of it!
Thanks for the feedback. The tradeoff I see is that it could be valuable for folks to be able to express a strong vs weak opinion. Perhaps what we need is to give a better breakdown of how the votes went?
Thanks Emrik, we do plan to reconsider how the frontpage should work in a few months!
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Thank you for your take, I very much appreciate the tradeoffs of any direction we split things.
Interesting suggestion, I think this could be interesting. When you say “would probably be valuable”, what do you see as the value? Gamification? Remembering the post better?
I think there are a variety of caveats (below), but ultimately I’d be interested in you trying this out on a number of posts to see how useful it is, and maybe writing a post about it.
Caveats:
Many posts won’t have a clear right and wrong interpretation of issues, will a quiz give the wrong impression?
This AI tool doesn’t take much additional input (as far as I can tell), and I’m curious whether it will pick out key points vs non-novel statements
Thanks, I think think this is good feedback. I recognize the way parent / child tags work now isn’t ideal. We’ll have to prioritize improving this against other things we could work on!