Thanks :)
I’ve been thinking a lot specifically on GPI’s research agenda, and talking to some of your collaborators there. I’m currently under the impression that it would be very difficult to actually help advance the research agenda outside something equivalent at least to a PhD.
Ideally, I’d want to have much more concrete projects that comes out of EA org research agendas that might be small enough and self contained enough for non-experts to work on.
So far, the “what can I do to help” that I gathered that’s related to GPI’s research agenda (and similar academic institutions), for people without adequate background knowledge are mostly:
explain basic papers and concepts.
conduct a literature review, and collect information relevant to one topic.
Ideally, researchers would collect small problems on the side, or write up stuff you’d want someone else to explain. I’m not sure if that is worth the time of the researcher, both to write up the request and to correct errors or poor explanations.
Thanks, looks like a useful resource!
For some EA-motivated research project ideas in economics and philosophy, hopefully the GPI Research Agenda also serves as a useful resource.
(Edit: I see that the document links to Effective Thesis’s list of research agendas, of which GPI’s is one. Sorry for the redundancy.)
Thanks :) I’ve been thinking a lot specifically on GPI’s research agenda, and talking to some of your collaborators there. I’m currently under the impression that it would be very difficult to actually help advance the research agenda outside something equivalent at least to a PhD. Ideally, I’d want to have much more concrete projects that comes out of EA org research agendas that might be small enough and self contained enough for non-experts to work on.
So far, the “what can I do to help” that I gathered that’s related to GPI’s research agenda (and similar academic institutions), for people without adequate background knowledge are mostly:
explain basic papers and concepts.
conduct a literature review, and collect information relevant to one topic.
Ideally, researchers would collect small problems on the side, or write up stuff you’d want someone else to explain. I’m not sure if that is worth the time of the researcher, both to write up the request and to correct errors or poor explanations.