Posts investigating/discussing any of the questions listed here. These are questions which would be “valuable for someone to research, or at least theorise about, that the current pandemic in some way ‘opens up’ or will provide new evidence about, and that could inform EAs’ future efforts and priorities”.
If anyone has thought of such questions, please add them as answers to to that post.
An example of such a question which I added: “What lessons can be drawn from [events related to COVID-19] for how much to trust governments, mainstream experts, news sources, EAs, rationalists, mathematical modelling by people without domain-specific expertise, etc.? What lessons can be drawn for debates about inside vs outside views, epistemic modesty, etc.?”
Posts investigating/discussing any of the questions listed here. These are questions which would be “valuable for someone to research, or at least theorise about, that the current pandemic in some way ‘opens up’ or will provide new evidence about, and that could inform EAs’ future efforts and priorities”.
If anyone has thought of such questions, please add them as answers to to that post.
An example of such a question which I added: “What lessons can be drawn from [events related to COVID-19] for how much to trust governments, mainstream experts, news sources, EAs, rationalists, mathematical modelling by people without domain-specific expertise, etc.? What lessons can be drawn for debates about inside vs outside views, epistemic modesty, etc.?”