This is presumably an April Fools joke but is there any reason this wouldn’t be a good idea? Get a bunch of EA’s to network, advertise the hell out of it, and get more funding on top of that..
Making people aggressively argue why other peoples work is should be dropped / stopped could create scisms between groups that the participants are pooled from. Animal Welfarist drops first with unanimous vote. Guess how many EAs express animal welfare as their area of interest when meeting new folks? Its partly a scissor statement factory.
[Out of character] Because, among other issues, watching people do high-impact research on their computers does not typically make for good reality TV, and good reality TV personalities do not typically make for good collaborators or managers.
This is presumably an April Fools joke but is there any reason this wouldn’t be a good idea? Get a bunch of EA’s to network, advertise the hell out of it, and get more funding on top of that..
Because the space of possible things one could do is vast, and optimal actions are far in between
Making people aggressively argue why other peoples work is should be dropped / stopped could create scisms between groups that the participants are pooled from. Animal Welfarist drops first with unanimous vote. Guess how many EAs express animal welfare as their area of interest when meeting new folks? Its partly a scissor statement factory.
[Out of character] Because, among other issues, watching people do high-impact research on their computers does not typically make for good reality TV, and good reality TV personalities do not typically make for good collaborators or managers.
Mostly the “trashiness” (fun though it may be) potentially tarnishing the outside reputation of, like, literally everyone involved.
I’m bullish on radical transparency at this point. Whoever is the most unrelentingly brash will seize the next moral aesthetics cycle.