American policy platform for total welfare

By kbog @ 2020-12-03T18:07 (+38)

I would like to share the policy platform for maximizing total welfare that I've written, applicable to the U.S. government.

This incorporates content from older Candidate Scoring System reports but now has better ideas, sources, and focus, and is now halfway readable and user-friendly.

This is meant to provide academic solutions to debates and to inform EA and EA-adjacent audiences. It's not well optimized for persuasion of general audiences or government officials (although it contains plenty of content that could help you with those things).

As always, challenges are welcome, I actively revise the page with new ideas and sources.

Jonas Vollmer @ 2020-12-07T18:01 (+29)

(As always, personal opinion, not my employer's.)

I think this looks like an interesting project and think it would be great if more EAs were more involved in politics.

One piece of feedback though – I hope it's useful: I generally recommend against using the EA branding for such projects, for several reasons: 1) it likely discourages others from attempting similar projects, as they think the space is already covered, 2) if you don't do a great job, that could reflect badly on all of EA, as your project will automatically be perceived by some people as being representative of EA if you're using that branding, 3) you might unnecessarily limit your target audience: not everyone might like or understand the EA philosophy, but they might still be interested in your project. (Over the past years, I have recommended against using EA branding in the projects that I've been involved with myself for these reasons, unless they represent a central part of EA infrastructure. For instance, I've rebranded EAF to CLR.)

I hope that's helpful feedback!