Another aspect of costs of compromise is: How bad is it for altruists to have to compromise their cognitive search between [what you believe you can explain to funders] vs [what you believe is effective]? Re my recent harumph about the fact that John Wentworth must justify his research to get paid. Like what? After all this time, anybody doubts him? The insistence that he explain himself is surely more for show now, as it demonstrates the funders are doing their jobs “seriously”.
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I especially enjoy that I seem to have basically popularized a frame you’ve already been thinking about.
Another aspect of costs of compromise is: How bad is it for altruists to have to compromise their cognitive search between [what you believe you can explain to funders] vs [what you believe is effective]? Re my recent harumph about the fact that John Wentworth must justify his research to get paid. Like what? After all this time, anybody doubts him? The insistence that he explain himself is surely more for show now, as it demonstrates the funders are doing their jobs “seriously”.