Notes on quantifying the impact of hiring/funding EAs
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The article: “Notes on quantifying the impact of hiring/funding EAs”
Fundamental Justification
What outcomes were to be expected before you started the project? What were unusually good and unusually bad possible outcomes? (Please avoid hindsight bias and take the interests of all sentient beings into account.)
I expected that this post facilitates further conversation on the coordination of EA hiring and funding. An unusually good outcome would be if different people already interested in making products in this area use this thinking to streamline EA hiring and funding. An unusually bad outcome would be discouragement of decisionmakers, such as EA hiring professionals and funding managers.
What actual outcomes are you aware of?
Short after posting, there are no reactions, which indicates neither discouragement nor use.
Who can make a legitimate claim to a fraction of the impact, and have you talked to them?
I tried to cover the concepts in this discussion. In particular, I would have probably not thought of the runway time before funding runs out and omitted the discussion on the willingness of a candidate to reapply for high-impact ventures after some time in the industry. I also took coursework relevant to the quantification and generally engaged with EA to come up with some of the ideas, especially the questions. Thus, others can attribute some impact, e. g. 20%. I have not discussed this.
Who are the current owners of the impact and what fraction do they each own?
Myself, 100%.
Procedural Questions
What is your minimum valuation under which you’ll not sell any shares in your impact?
I am currently not selling.
What would you have done had there been no chance to get retro funding? (This helps us assess our impact but has no effect on our evaluation of the certificate’s impact.)
I would likely (95%) not quantify the impact of EA hiring/funding but likely (80%) write a motivational piece without much contribution to solve the problem, which I am now discouraged to write due to some thinking on the problem solving.