Would this post meet the standards of investigative journalism that’s typically published in mainstream news outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the Economist?
I’m not exactly sure what this means, not being aware of what those standards are. It does strike me that IIUC those venues typically attempt to cover issues of national or international importance (or in the case of the NYT and WaPo, issues of importance to New York City or Washington, DC), and that’s probably the wrong bar for importance for whether someone should publish something on the EA forum or LessWrong.
Anyway, hope these responses satisfy your curiosity!
Definitely more plausible, but as a rule, “whenever you engage in some risky activity, you should do it to the standards of the top organizations who do it” doesn’t seem a priori plausible.
I’m not exactly sure what this means, not being aware of what those standards are. It does strike me that IIUC those venues typically attempt to cover issues of national or international importance (or in the case of the NYT and WaPo, issues of importance to New York City or Washington, DC), and that’s probably the wrong bar for importance for whether someone should publish something on the EA forum or LessWrong.
Anyway, hope these responses satisfy your curiosity!
A version of this focusing on reliability of the investigation, quality of the evidence, etc is a much more plausible version though.
Definitely more plausible, but as a rule, “whenever you engage in some risky activity, you should do it to the standards of the top organizations who do it” doesn’t seem a priori plausible.