According to my world model, if you want to do maximum good for the world, then... (I might be wrong, so feel free to question me)
Investing all resources (money, time, thinking) charitably (meaning: to the direct benefit of others, for example avoiding investing in AI companies, when you think that the world should slow down AI development) is wrong. Because you can invest resources into getting more resources, and if you invest all your resources charitably while others invest them into getting more resources, then you will end up with nothing compared to them and almost all resources will be invested selfishly. If you invest your resources first, and then use them charitably, you will spend more money charitably overall, because you will have more resources.
Investing all resources into getting more resources is also bad, because if everyone does that, then the world will be bad - because everyone would try to maximize their resources, nobody would invest in what is best for the collective (when it's not the same as what gives the highest return of investment), which ends up with a lot of price of anarchy.
The right thing to do, in my opinion, is to be a little bit better than average in terms of how altruistically you spend your resources, but don't be so altruistic that you prioritize others more than yourself (because if you want to maximize the utility of the collective, then you need to take everyone into account equally, including yourself). If everyone follows that, then people would gradually become more altruistic (because the average would go towards more altruism) until everyone would do what is best for the collective.
The problem is... "be a little bit better than average in terms of altruism" is quite ambiguous. That's the problem that I struggle with. I know that I rather shouldn't go 100% into altruism nor 100% selfishness, and I should rather be better than average. But in terms of what? In terms of results? In terms of effort? In terms of invested money? In terms of invested time? In terms of invested money, time and other stuff overall? How much is "a little bit better"? I don't seem to have a complete clarity about that at the moment. For that reason, I also struggle with how to invest money (and other things) a bit.
Why do you assume that if a post is AI-written then it's low-quality? Maybe it's because you assume that AI is not currently capable of coming up with good ideas/discoveries. I don't know if that's true, but even if that's the case, then I used AI for writing because it was able to convey something in words better and the idea/discovery was made by me. If I write it myself, it wouldn't be of higher quality (except for the fact that sometimes AI misses some points and it doesn't represent what I wanted to say perfectly)
"Applicant fit: Is the person who submitted the proposal the right person to do this project?
How competent are they? Do I think they can execute this proposal well? What do their references look like? How strongly do people they’ve worked with endorse them?"
I have few thoughts:
I agree that something like that needs to be done. I did something similar myself for EA forum posts, but apparently people didn't like it because it didn't get any upvotes here (I don't know why).
My main question/feedback is: "EA Forum paper links" - what exactly is that? Are these EA posts that link to a paper? If so, then why not include all posts, why only papers?
This is not an accurate summary.
It omits the most important mechanism that I mentioned in my post. The mechanism is to reward rewarding itself. This is really the most important part of my post that has been completely omitted from the summary.
"Epistemic status: This is a speculative, normative proposal relying on assumptions about behavioral adaptation, future technology, and long-term incentives; key uncertainties include whether coordination dynamics will shift as described and whether sufficient adoption can occur."
This is not speculative, it's based on a theoretical justification that makes logical sense. If it doesn't make sense to someone else, please point out why.
It's definitely not normative, in a sense that it doesn't tell people what to do, but it offers a solution.
Key uncertainty, in my opinion:
My solution was mostly this: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7EAwiAopjtAdD8hsn/most-impactful-posts-on-effective-altruism-forum-from-13th
But it didn't work. People didn't upvote that. My problem/frustration continues.
I actually proposed a similar idea in a few places months ago (links below). I plan to post about related topics, e.g. my future posts might help to understand how such deals could be enforced, so if you are interested, then follow me
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/3rDfScbBNhbsk93gF/how-to-stop-inequality-from-growing
I think that there is value in telling people with AI psychosis about why their ideas are wrong. It helps to get unstuck (if you think that your idea is good, but nobody tells you why, then you are stuck). That helps both the individual and society, because when a person is stuck on wrong idea, then they pay an opportunity cost (and society pays that too).
I think people might underestimate the value of feedback.