This is great! Very related to Open Philanthropy’s concept of reasoning transparency, especially the section on how to indicate different kinds of support for your view.
I vividly remember learning about this within my first few weeks working at GiveWell: when I submitted an early draft of some research on malaria, my manager took one look at the footnotes and asked me to redo them. “Don’t just find some serious-looking source—what actually led you to make the claim you’re footnoting?” I was mindblown, both that this was such a novel thing to do and that I hadn’t even really noticed I wasn’t doing it.
This is great! Very related to Open Philanthropy’s concept of reasoning transparency, especially the section on how to indicate different kinds of support for your view.
I vividly remember learning about this within my first few weeks working at GiveWell: when I submitted an early draft of some research on malaria, my manager took one look at the footnotes and asked me to redo them. “Don’t just find some serious-looking source—what actually led you to make the claim you’re footnoting?” I was mindblown, both that this was such a novel thing to do and that I hadn’t even really noticed I wasn’t doing it.