While I agree that posts describing various "rationality task forces" should be encouraged, I disagree that the present post at hand is one of those posts. It only describes 80k as a collage of marketing buzzwords.
Your post was vastly better.
This is the first post about 80k on LW by an 80k volunteer/staff member, and like Randaly says, the only two posts in the last 6 months to significantly feature 80k were about arguments for and against professional philanthropy.
Apologies for the 'collage of buzzwords' impression. I didn't include a detailed description of 80k and its purpose, like the THINK post, because I wasn't intending it to be an advert. Rather, I was intending it to be a survey. For this reason I also didn't include much detail about what our existing work is about, hoping not to bia...
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