I’m curating this post.

Being aware of and grateful for privilege, and wanting to pass on our luck, has always been an important moral strain in effective altruism (just look at GWWC’s live pledge motivations). This post is a great example of it^[1].

Thanks for posting Nick!

1. ^{^}

   I also value the exploration of the reverse - the guilt at not using privilege when you could. 

Yep :)

this would resolve the issue

It's live!

@RohanSR🔸 does this resolve the design issue? Or are there other elements that you're not a fan of as it stands?

Thanks Nick, good flags. 

I'm skeptical of this criteria ‘Selected posts to help us answer: how can we do the most good with our resources?’  For a start why not use the better-polling "selected posts that help us do more good", which also helps with consistent CEA messaging

Mostly because I think that that's a broader category, and I want to keep this one bounded. 

These posts below for example are amazing (including classic posts), but don't necessarily meet that criteria

I'll give quick takes on each without rereading them (these are great examples, thanks!):

1. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/wTXAbzbkAxZrLv5Cg/why-are-longtermists-so-much-less-focused-on-human
   1. This would be included. I didn't include it in this draft of the post, but 'cause prioritisation' is almost always featurable (if it is good). I want the Forum to be the place to find cause prio discussion.
2. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XuNBJL3EHqhFKLEGn/impact-requires-implementation-what-dispensers-for-safe
   1. I'm guessing this would also be included, it's highlighting a general lesson for impartial altruists involved in global health.
3. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CmGPp5p9RvTLuuzbt/aim-high-even-if-you-fall-short
   1. I probably wouldn't feature this. I love Julia's motivational/pastoral posts and I think they deserve a lot of readers, but they are firmly in the community/ motivational category. I'm excluding that category because I want to encourage more cause prioritisation work in particular, and also because my current best guess is that people will still read this content even if it is less promoted on the Forum. I'll be monitoring that - it'd be a real loss if posts like this ended up getting no readers.
   2. I should probably explicitly say something about motivational posts in the criteria. I'll include it in the next draft.
4. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FpjQMYQmS3rWewZ83/effective-altruism-is-a-question-not-an-ideology
   1. This likely wouldn't be included because, although it names an important idea for effective altruists, I can't see the path by which it influences the deployment of resources. This is without a reread though - if it is more about how to market EA than I remember then it might be featurable.
   2. This is also a case where it would end up on the featured page anyway, because it would get over 100 karma.
5. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MGTzcHtwxpL6iXLJd/if-far-uv-is-so-great-why-isn-t-it-everywhere
   1. This would be included. Without rereading it it seems clearly to be an argument that something needs more/ less resources. 
       

I like these examples because they make clear some of the real trade-offs here, thanks for putting them together! Feel free to push me on this further, this is just a quick comment. 

Couldn't resist and claude coded it - list view is in code review now. 

Thanks! 

Yep for V2 I'm already planning to allow for a more front-pagey looking option with no images, and just posts layed out in a list. Hopefully that'll address the information density point (let me know it if doesn't). 
And on the screenshot, I agree, those look weird, I'll make some tweaks. 

Thank you Sarah! 

You've been a great manager and leader of our team. 

I'm more excited and hopeful about the future of the Forum now than I have been for a long time, and that's because of the support within CEA that you drummed up for us, and the strategy that you helped create. I've grown a lot with your help, and I'm glad to now have an inner anti-authoritarian Sarah that I can call on whenever I'm tempted to defer. 

Thanks for everything, and best of luck at 80K :)

It's not an assumption. I read a lot of AI generated text, including on the EA Forum, and so far, it's low quality. 

+1 on Overton window, this is the first AI development that my Mum had heard of, and a non-EA friend texted me about. 

I'm curating this post from 2017 because: 
a) 'hard to reverse decisions destroy option value' is a true and useful idea and 
b) this problem is relevant again as we consider the multiple ways the EA movement could develop, if Anthropic or OpenAI IPOs do change the funding environment.