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What exactly is the "group" here, and how exactly will they "participate in the policy"? Are we going to put the emotionally oriented people into research positions at GiveWell? Or do you believe the risk is that at some moment they will say "fuck GiveWell, let's donate to the Cute Puppies Foundation instead"?
The latter seems like a real risk to me, the former doesn't.
Agreed that putting emotionally-oriented people into research positions would be a risk, but let's be honest, they won't want to go there.
Regarding the second point, the whole goal of the post I was making above is to appeal to people's emotions to cause them to care about effectiveness.
The more emotionally-oriented people will not be good at determining effectiveness. But if we can get them to care about effectiveness, not cute puppies, that's where we can make a huge difference in their spending decisions. They would be highly unlikely to become leaders within EA, but their donations can then be powerfully shaped by EA recommendations