This Forum May Offer Better, Newer Formats For Interviews
An initial interview with one effective altruist lets the rest of us know what that one person is up to. However, for individuals working on particularly deep and interesting projects, I want to know more than just what they’re doing. I want to know why, and how. For example: I might want to know more about what Brian Tomasik is doing with the Foundational Research Institute, or what Owen Cotton-Barrat is doing with the Global Priorities Project. That might require a second interview, or one that interacts with third parties.
However, going back and forth on the forum so much may be use too much of the valuable time such folks have in limited supply. Here’s a proposal for more effective interviews:
A call could be made requesting questions to be asked of a certain individual’s work lots of effective altruists want to learn about.
As effective altruists pose questions for the interviewee, the rest of us could select which questions we want answered most. This could be indicated through polling, or upvotes, or something.
The interviewee could take a look at the questions for which there is the most demand. They could choose a certain number to answer, or answer whichever questions they like.
I believe this could be a great way to make conversations public. This can make for more efficient public conversations, facilitating dozens of people’s ideas, rather than only those of a few.
Oh, right, that’s a usefully existing format I totally forgot about. I suppose it would make sense for us to do AMAs here, but they could also be done on an effective altruist subreddit with lots of followers as well.
This Forum May Offer Better, Newer Formats For Interviews
An initial interview with one effective altruist lets the rest of us know what that one person is up to. However, for individuals working on particularly deep and interesting projects, I want to know more than just what they’re doing. I want to know why, and how. For example: I might want to know more about what Brian Tomasik is doing with the Foundational Research Institute, or what Owen Cotton-Barrat is doing with the Global Priorities Project. That might require a second interview, or one that interacts with third parties.
However, going back and forth on the forum so much may be use too much of the valuable time such folks have in limited supply. Here’s a proposal for more effective interviews:
A call could be made requesting questions to be asked of a certain individual’s work lots of effective altruists want to learn about.
As effective altruists pose questions for the interviewee, the rest of us could select which questions we want answered most. This could be indicated through polling, or upvotes, or something.
The interviewee could take a look at the questions for which there is the most demand. They could choose a certain number to answer, or answer whichever questions they like.
I believe this could be a great way to make conversations public. This can make for more efficient public conversations, facilitating dozens of people’s ideas, rather than only those of a few.
I like this. It’s similar to how AMA’s work on Reddit, right? EAs should do AMAs :)
Oh, right, that’s a usefully existing format I totally forgot about. I suppose it would make sense for us to do AMAs here, but they could also be done on an effective altruist subreddit with lots of followers as well.