"To see the world as it is, rather than as I wish it to be."
I'm a Senior Researcher on the General Longtermism team at Rethink Priorities. Right now, my team and I are re-orienting towards what are the best things to do, see here.
I also volunteer as a funds manager for EA Funds' Long-term Future Fund.
You can see this already in the comments where people without context say this is a good piece and thanking you for "all the insights".
FWIW I Control-F'd for "all the insights" and did not see any other hit on this page other than your comment.
EDIT 2023/06/14: Hmm, so I've since read all the comments on this post on both the EAF and LW[1], and I don't think your sentence was an accurate paraphrase for any of the comments on this post?
For context, the most positive comment on this post is probably mine, and astute readers might note that my comment was process-oriented rather than talking about quantity of insights.
(yes, I have extremely poor time management. Why do you ask?)
Interestingly, the reception at LessWrong is more critical (13 net karma at 66 votes), compared to here (113 net karma at 80 votes).
Great post, thank you for writing it in such detail, with great care and clarity, and also I appreciate the blunt and very concrete takeaways!
Quick note: Footnotes do not work for me (Chrome on MacOS). Not sure if you guys made a mistake somewhere or if it's a EAF bug, just thought I should mention this in case this is true for other people as well and the relevant people can fix it.
Thanks for the correction! I also appreciate the polite engagement.
As a quick clarification, I'm not a stickler for exact quotes (though e.g. the APA is), but I do think it's important for paraphrases to be accurate.
I'll also endeavor to be make my own comments harder to misinterpret going forwards, to minimize future misunderstandings.
To be clear, I also appreciate the content of this post, but more because it either brought new information to my attention, or summarized information I was aware of in the same place. (rather than because it offered particularly novel insights).