I think something like this might be pretty valuable among EAs/rationalists dealing with COVID. We clearly have a lot of people doing independent research, and a lot of it might be redundant.
I think EA/rats are mostly patting ourselves on the back RE how well we predicted COVID, and not thinking about how we could’ve done even better. I think we could’ve done better at coordinating within these communities, e.g. in an ideal world, we might’ve done better (and might do better) by coordinating efforts to channel COVID-efforts into producing community-facing or public-facing reports / recommendations. And we might’ve empowered some community members to be our “COVID czars” (e.g. by a combination of volunteering, voting, predicting who would do a good job, and funding them), and thus allowed many community members to spend a lot less energy on COVID.
Yeah, I’ve been thinking the same. It feels like there are a number of action-coordination dimension where we could have done substantially better (a substantial number of which will still be relevant for a while, so there is still time to improve).
I think something like this might be pretty valuable among EAs/rationalists dealing with COVID. We clearly have a lot of people doing independent research, and a lot of it might be redundant.
I think EA/rats are mostly patting ourselves on the back RE how well we predicted COVID, and not thinking about how we could’ve done even better. I think we could’ve done better at coordinating within these communities, e.g. in an ideal world, we might’ve done better (and might do better) by coordinating efforts to channel COVID-efforts into producing community-facing or public-facing reports / recommendations. And we might’ve empowered some community members to be our “COVID czars” (e.g. by a combination of volunteering, voting, predicting who would do a good job, and funding them), and thus allowed many community members to spend a lot less energy on COVID.
Yeah, I’ve been thinking the same. It feels like there are a number of action-coordination dimension where we could have done substantially better (a substantial number of which will still be relevant for a while, so there is still time to improve).