Yeah, I think that’d be another great thing for people to do. Although I’d add that that might be especially valuable when there’s no existing non-EA lit review on the topic (e.g., when the topic is somewhat obscure, or you’re taking a particular angle on a topic that EAs are unusually interested in).
E.g., perhaps there’s already a fairly good lit review on hiring practices in general, and you could add some value by writing a more summarised or updated version. But you might also be able to capture a lot of that value just by making a link post to that review on the forum and noting/summarising a few key points. Meanwhile, there might be no lit review that’s focused on hiring practices for start-up-style nonprofits in particular, so writing that might be especially worthwhile (if that’s roughly the subtopic/angle you were interested in anyway).
On the other hand, I think I would’ve guessed that the topic “how to create a highly impactful/disruptive research team” would be quite far from obscure, and would already have a solid, up-to-date lit review covering what EA people would want to know. But this post suggests there wasn’t an existing lit review with that particular angle, and the post seemed quite interesting and useful to me. So there are probably more “gaps” than I would naively expect, and thus substantial value in lit reviews on certain topics I would naively expect are already “covered”.
Yeah, I think that’d be another great thing for people to do. Although I’d add that that might be especially valuable when there’s no existing non-EA lit review on the topic (e.g., when the topic is somewhat obscure, or you’re taking a particular angle on a topic that EAs are unusually interested in).
E.g., perhaps there’s already a fairly good lit review on hiring practices in general, and you could add some value by writing a more summarised or updated version. But you might also be able to capture a lot of that value just by making a link post to that review on the forum and noting/summarising a few key points. Meanwhile, there might be no lit review that’s focused on hiring practices for start-up-style nonprofits in particular, so writing that might be especially worthwhile (if that’s roughly the subtopic/angle you were interested in anyway).
On the other hand, I think I would’ve guessed that the topic “how to create a highly impactful/disruptive research team” would be quite far from obscure, and would already have a solid, up-to-date lit review covering what EA people would want to know. But this post suggests there wasn’t an existing lit review with that particular angle, and the post seemed quite interesting and useful to me. So there are probably more “gaps” than I would naively expect, and thus substantial value in lit reviews on certain topics I would naively expect are already “covered”.