This is an extremely high effort write up and you spent a lot of time on something that you really cared about and that could make a difference.
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For long and potentially highly impactful posts like yours, I think people should consider splitting up posts. You are at the 20,000 word mark and the EA forum reports 100 minute read times. Breaking this down into multiple successive posts can increase engagement without necessarily more writing effort.
While not as knowledgeable as you, in 2019, I participated in organizations related to Extinction Rebellion, to help understand how they can be impactful. Although my knowledge is not deep, it is hard for me to construct very positive views from my experiences. I don’t know how useful it is to write a lot more right now.
I see myself named first in your acknowledgements which I don’t understand. I am grateful for your efforts and I care about new ways to be impactful and finding the truth, so I was happy to make some comments. I hope these helped. However, I don’t think I was the highest effort commentator and I am definitely not even in the top 90% the most important (Johannes Ackva comes to mind). I’m very happy for a demotion that buries me down somewhere less conspicuous.
I can definitely see that. In hindsight, I might have split the post up so I think that’s valuable feedback. The initial reason I didn’t do that was that the whole piece is quite self-referential so it made sense to be together but with a little bit of editing, it could be fixed. I might pull out excerpts and post separately in the future as there are specific section I want more feedback on so thank you for the advice!
I think it would be useful to hear your experience. I’m generally interested in the reasons why EAs might have gotten involved in protest-related movements and also why they left, so would be useful to understand.
I wouldn’t read too much into the ordering of the acknowledgements, but that’s very humble of you! The names were added mostly in chronological order of who gave feedback first so I guess thanks for being one of the early ones. I’m not sure if there is a standard formatting for acknowledgements so I just did it chronologically without really thinking about it.
I’m not sure if there is a standard formatting for acknowledgements so I just did it chronologically without really thinking about it.
Fwiw, I personally order alphabetically by first name, alphabetically by last name, or in order of how much value I got from a person’s input or how much effort they seemed to put in. Usually I go alphabetically since that requires less thought and seems less likely to annoy people (though of course it also doesn’t as accurately/effectively calibrate warm fuzzies and potential EA Forum street cred to value/effort).
This is an extremely high effort write up and you spent a lot of time on something that you really cared about and that could make a difference.
Comments:
For long and potentially highly impactful posts like yours, I think people should consider splitting up posts. You are at the 20,000 word mark and the EA forum reports 100 minute read times. Breaking this down into multiple successive posts can increase engagement without necessarily more writing effort.
While not as knowledgeable as you, in 2019, I participated in organizations related to Extinction Rebellion, to help understand how they can be impactful. Although my knowledge is not deep, it is hard for me to construct very positive views from my experiences. I don’t know how useful it is to write a lot more right now.
I see myself named first in your acknowledgements which I don’t understand. I am grateful for your efforts and I care about new ways to be impactful and finding the truth, so I was happy to make some comments. I hope these helped. However, I don’t think I was the highest effort commentator and I am definitely not even in the top 90% the most important (Johannes Ackva comes to mind). I’m very happy for a demotion that buries me down somewhere less conspicuous.
Hi Charles, thanks for the feedback!
I can definitely see that. In hindsight, I might have split the post up so I think that’s valuable feedback. The initial reason I didn’t do that was that the whole piece is quite self-referential so it made sense to be together but with a little bit of editing, it could be fixed. I might pull out excerpts and post separately in the future as there are specific section I want more feedback on so thank you for the advice!
I think it would be useful to hear your experience. I’m generally interested in the reasons why EAs might have gotten involved in protest-related movements and also why they left, so would be useful to understand.
I wouldn’t read too much into the ordering of the acknowledgements, but that’s very humble of you! The names were added mostly in chronological order of who gave feedback first so I guess thanks for being one of the early ones. I’m not sure if there is a standard formatting for acknowledgements so I just did it chronologically without really thinking about it.
Fwiw, I personally order alphabetically by first name, alphabetically by last name, or in order of how much value I got from a person’s input or how much effort they seemed to put in. Usually I go alphabetically since that requires less thought and seems less likely to annoy people (though of course it also doesn’t as accurately/effectively calibrate warm fuzzies and potential EA Forum street cred to value/effort).