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Effective altruism in the garden of ends

This is a crosspost from the EA Forum that I was encourage to post here as well. I imagine it may have even more experience here, since the most "hardcore" EAs that I know typically began as rationality community members.

Huge thanks to Alex Zhu, Anders Sandberg, Andrés Gómez Emilsson, Andrew Roberts, Anne-Lorraine Selke (who I've subbed in entire sentences from), Crichton Atkinson, Ellie Hain, George Walker, Jesper Östman, Joe Edelman, Liza Simonova, Kathryn Devaney, Milan Griffes, Morgan Sutherland, Nathan Young, Rafael Ruiz, Tasshin Fogelman, Valerie Zhang, and Xiq for reviewing or helping me develop my ideas here. Further thanks to Allison Duettmann, Anders Sandberg, Howie Lempel, Julia Wise, and Tildy Stokes, for... (read 7961 more words →)

Tyler Alterman6yQuick Take

Dangerous feedback loop for startups and societies:

Proportion of people with broad expertise declines ->

Systems based on judgement and initiative fall apart ->

Replacement by rule-based systems (which do not train broad expertise) -^

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This is probably not super obvious

One possible additional mechanism: Feedback - Are you able to dynamically gauge the understanding of the audience? The closer to realtime the better.

A conversation is a high-feedback method of communicating EA - your audience can clear up their confusions by asking questions, or by making confused expressions that prompt you to clarify a point.

Above you talk about depth and nuance like they are two separate concepts

This use of safety might be unintuitive for most people.

I'd nix this - seems like you're calling Eliezer out

WDYT of the idea of hosting some sort of "speed-friending" type thing at the next EAG? E.g., speed-friending for EA org members would be great.

Let's keep this in mind for launching the prediction market