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Thoughts on EA Epistemics Projects — EA Forum

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I work at the EA Infrastructure Fund, and I’m wanting to get a better sense of whether it’s worth us doing more grantmaking in this area, and what valuable projects in this area would look like. (These are my own opinions and this post isn’t intended to reflect the opinions of EAIF as a whole.) I’m pretty early on in thinking about this. With this post I’m aiming to spell out a bit of why I’m currently excited about this area, and what kinds of projects I’m excited about in particular. Basically, it seems to me that having good epistemics is pretty important for effectively improving the world. And I think EA could do better on this front. I think EA already does well on this front. Relative to other communities I’m aware of, I think EA has pretty good epistemics. And I think we could do better, and if we did, that would be pretty valuable. I don’t have a great sense of how tractable 'improving EA's epistemics' is, though I suspect that there’s some valuable work to be done here. In pa

NunoSempere 1y 28 6 1 1 For a while, I've been thinking about the following problem: as you get better models of the world/ability to get better models of the world, you start noticing things that are inconvenient for others. Some of those inconvenient truths can break coordination games people are playing, and leave them with worse alternatives. Some examples: The reason why organization X is doing weird things is because their director is weirdly incompetent XYZ is explained by people jockeying for influence inside some organization Y is the case but would be super inconvenient to the ideolo

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