Umm. I presume you have other feedback mechanisms to predict/measure/feel the impact of your writing here. More importantly, I don’t think LW-style writing is likely to be all that critical to public sentiment, and I don’t think it’s a good example of something that would benefit from government funding or oversight.
LessWrong is well funded by donors. It’s not funded by the government but money is spent to create public good. When EA money funds media it has more specific goals than government funding has but it is an example of different goals.
It’s an example of how optimizing for page views isn’t everywhere. GiveWell also doesn’t optimize for page views. They optimize for donations (which also causes problem if you listen to Ben Hoffman).
Buzzfeed used to hire some investigative reporters and did not care about the page views of the resulting articles. They hired those investigative reporters to gain prestige and be seen as more serious.
I see no reason why the EU couldn’t pay journalists to do investigative journalism in Hungary without optimizing for page views.
Part of setting up governance is getting the incentives right and hopefully, the incentives will be different than the incentives of the current outlets.
Umm. I presume you have other feedback mechanisms to predict/measure/feel the impact of your writing here. More importantly, I don’t think LW-style writing is likely to be all that critical to public sentiment, and I don’t think it’s a good example of something that would benefit from government funding or oversight.
LessWrong is well funded by donors. It’s not funded by the government but money is spent to create public good. When EA money funds media it has more specific goals than government funding has but it is an example of different goals.
It’s an example of how optimizing for page views isn’t everywhere. GiveWell also doesn’t optimize for page views. They optimize for donations (which also causes problem if you listen to Ben Hoffman).
Buzzfeed used to hire some investigative reporters and did not care about the page views of the resulting articles. They hired those investigative reporters to gain prestige and be seen as more serious.
I see no reason why the EU couldn’t pay journalists to do investigative journalism in Hungary without optimizing for page views.
Part of setting up governance is getting the incentives right and hopefully, the incentives will be different than the incentives of the current outlets.