I'm a co-founder and co-executive director at the London-based Center on Long-Term Risk, a research group and grantmaker focused on preventing s-risks from AI. I also advise the Long-Term Future Fund.
My background is in medicine (BMed) and economics (MSc) with a focus on health economics and development economics.
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I think David Moss has data on this (can you tag people in EA Forum posts?). I've sent him a PM with a link to this comment as an FYI, though I'm not sure he has time to respond.
Also interesting: Daniel Kestenholz's career reflection framework. This is essentially a detailed template for a career plan.
See these resources:
- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gA57ThbaS3znib242/the-meat-eater-problem-developing-an-ea-response
- https://concepts.effectivealtruism.org/concepts/the-meat-eater-problem/
Quoting from the first of these:
This argument is usually called the “poor meat eater problem,” but I think this term is not quite accurate, given that the concern is stronger in the developed world, so I’m going to call it the “meat eater problem.”
Great post. I personally didn't really enjoy the sales-y style sometimes ("I’m going to let you in on a secret") but I liked the clear examples that illustrate important ideas. Theory of change in particular seems underestimated/underdiscussed in EA.
Nice addition and caveats, thanks! :)
Thanks, I wasn't aware of this!
Very cool!
I think for me personally, this would work better if there were two buttons at the end – one called "publish", one called "share as draft with users" or something like that. That puts it more in the reference class of "this is a form of publishing my work" rather than "here's some additional feature that I don't understand how it works".
Also: I notice that my wording was a bit unfriendly – apologies, I would like to retract that. :)
EDIT: It seems that drafts don't support comments. I think this is one of the main features I was hoping for.
Categories / sub-fora / better overview of tags
I think it would be very helpful if the forum was made easier to navigate by creating categories/sub-fora, making tags more intuitively accessible, or some other method. E.g., how do I find the most-upvoted forum posts and comments about EA investing?
I would like to promote Wei Dai's suggestion that it would be nice if it was possible to share drafts privately and then potentially make them public at a later point. (I think there's some chance that this is already possible, but the UX doesn't seem intuitive, otherwise I would have noticed already.)
Before implementing, it seems worth talking to users to find out whether this would actually make them more likely to share their internal work publicly at some point. It could also be good to find out whether there are any other ways that could make people more likely to share their internal work publicly.
Some academic references can be found here (in favor and against SFE)