Ben_West🔸

karma rank #10 · 16,137 karma · 10 posts sampled · profile ↗

Top cause areas

ea meta 7.2 +0.9σ
forecasting epistemics 1.6 -0.2σ
prioritization 1.5 -1.0σ
animal welfare 1.4 +0.5σ
Show all 15 cause areas
effective giving 1.2 -0.8σ
longtermism xrisk 0.8 -0.7σ
rationalist meta 0.7 -0.8σ
global health 0.6 -0.5σ
moral circle values 0.5 -0.7σ
mental health 0.3 -0.2σ
climate 0.2 +0.2σ
ai governance 0.1 -0.7σ
biosecurity 0.1 -0.6σ
ai safety 0.0 -0.9σ
nuclear great power 0.0 -0.6σ

Distinguishing dimensions z-score vs top-30 cohort

▲ stance_optimism_ea_institutions +1.3σ
▲ stance_inside_ea +1.2σ
▲ cause_ea_meta +0.9σ
▼ style_philosophical -1.1σ
▼ cause_cause_prioritization -1.0σ

Style quantitative / empirical / philosophical / speculative / operational / contrarian

quantitative 5.4 +0.9σ
empirical 4.1 +0.3σ
philosophical 2.3 -1.1σ
speculative 3.9 -0.2σ
operational howto 4.7 +0.2σ
critical contrarian 3.1 -0.5σ
Show all 9 style dims
personal narrative 2.4 -0.1σ
synthesizing 5.1 -0.2σ
question asking 3.0 +0.2σ

Stance signature top 3 stance dims furthest from neutral (5)

inside ea 8.8 +1.2σ
ea org coded 7.5 +0.8σ
optimism ea institutions 6.9 +1.3σ
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welfarist vs rights 5.8 +0.8σ
animal moral status 5.7 +0.5σ
rationalist coded 4.5 -0.7σ
suffering focused 5.4 +0.5σ
longtermist framing 5.1 -0.5σ
ai doom axis 5.0 -0.6σ

Tone

combativeness 1.3 -0.8σ
calibration 6.9 +0.6σ
jargon 4.8 -0.3σ
humility 6.3 +0.7σ

Quality

rigor 6.7 +0.5σ
originality 5.4 -0.0σ
clarity 8.1 -0.0σ

Neighbors in dimension space

Nearest: Peter Wildeford

Foil: Larks

Most characteristic post

Who do intellectual prizewinners follow on Twitter?

baseScore: 72

Executive Summary In order to understand what types of content CEA’s target audience already consumes, we investigated which Twitter accounts are most followed by a proxy for that audience. We used intellectual prizewinners (IPWs) such as Rhodes Scholars as a proxy for especially promising students and young professionals. The hope is that by examining who is already successful at reaching IPWs, we can better reach them ourselves. This document describes our results and we…

Highest-karma post in sample

Summary of Core Feedback Collected by CEA in Spring/Summer 2019

baseScore: 109