Make a link post to a summary of useful ideas/topics, if a decent summary exists but isn’t already on the EA Forum or LessWrong
Write a summary of the idea/topic themselves, if no decent summary exists at all, or one exists but doesn’t quite capture how EAs want to use that thing more summaries of useful ideas, and more collections of quotes, sources, definitions, terms, etc.
Post a “collection” of quotes, sources, definitions, terms, etc. on a useful idea/topic.
I suggest this particularly for people who are just learning about or researching a topic anyway, and happen to spot a gap. Collections in particular can be very quick to do, in that case. And I think that both summaries and collections can make the road easier for those who follow.
Posting such summaries and collections is more like an incidental extra thing people can do than like a thing people could primarily focus on. But it could perhaps serve a similar role to something like occasional volunteering.
Thanks for making this list!
An additional set of suggestions I’ve just made, a year and a day after your post, are to:
Make a link post to a summary of useful ideas/topics, if a decent summary exists but isn’t already on the EA Forum or LessWrong
Write a summary of the idea/topic themselves, if no decent summary exists at all, or one exists but doesn’t quite capture how EAs want to use that thing more summaries of useful ideas, and more collections of quotes, sources, definitions, terms, etc.
Post a “collection” of quotes, sources, definitions, terms, etc. on a useful idea/topic.
I suggest this particularly for people who are just learning about or researching a topic anyway, and happen to spot a gap. Collections in particular can be very quick to do, in that case. And I think that both summaries and collections can make the road easier for those who follow.
Posting such summaries and collections is more like an incidental extra thing people can do than like a thing people could primarily focus on. But it could perhaps serve a similar role to something like occasional volunteering.