Not that much. But I think it’s pretty bad if people are forced to choose between “play the game of exaggerating impact” and “go unfunded”. Even if the game is in fact learnable, it’s a bad use of their time and weakens the barriers to lying in the future.
Huh, the way you phrase this feels like a minor point, and maybe was less salient for you, but I think this is maybe the thing I was most worried about.
I think the epistemic corruption is subtle, and possibly small on an individual basis, but I think good epistemics are extremely rare/precious and very hard to maintain, and maintaining epistemics in the face of systemic economic pressure is particularly hard. This feels like a contender to me for “civilization-wide top-tier problem worth solving”, and it feels worth it both locally for EA to avoid the problem for themselves, as well as hopefully being an experiment that can radiate outward into other nearby grantmaking systems.
I think it’s the most important but have no idea how to close the inferential distance with people who don’t already agree, and this post was a rush job.
Coolio. Well, I’m happy to argue “yeah this seems real damn important to me”. If anyone actively disagrees I’d be interested in talking through frames and discussing cruxes.
Huh, the way you phrase this feels like a minor point, and maybe was less salient for you, but I think this is maybe the thing I was most worried about.
I think the epistemic corruption is subtle, and possibly small on an individual basis, but I think good epistemics are extremely rare/precious and very hard to maintain, and maintaining epistemics in the face of systemic economic pressure is particularly hard. This feels like a contender to me for “civilization-wide top-tier problem worth solving”, and it feels worth it both locally for EA to avoid the problem for themselves, as well as hopefully being an experiment that can radiate outward into other nearby grantmaking systems.
I think it’s the most important but have no idea how to close the inferential distance with people who don’t already agree, and this post was a rush job.
EDIT: ended up figuring out an encapsulation I like
Coolio. Well, I’m happy to argue “yeah this seems real damn important to me”. If anyone actively disagrees I’d be interested in talking through frames and discussing cruxes.