We should lower the barriers to finding out what others know. Here are some things that are already possible.
People can follow EAs on twitter to get short notes of things they are interested in
Speed meetings at EAG let you rapidly gain context outside of your bubble
How can we make this easier? Some ideas
Forum users can say what topics they are interested in and what they are experts in
Other users can go to the topics section of the forum to see what users are there
There is a natural way to move dense content in the world into synethised content on some kind of EA wiki. As I’ve said elsewhere, the forum wiki doesn’t do this, because users aren’t encouraged to synethise content, only give a brief summary of the topic area.
We should have summaries of other nearby cultures and how they differ from us
There should be a community-curated list of disagreements in EA with links to the most up to date discussions
We should lower the barriers to finding out what others know. Here are some things that are already possible.
People can follow EAs on twitter to get short notes of things they are interested in
Speed meetings at EAG let you rapidly gain context outside of your bubble
How can we make this easier? Some ideas
Forum users can say what topics they are interested in and what they are experts in
Other users can go to the topics section of the forum to see what users are there
There is a natural way to move dense content in the world into synethised content on some kind of EA wiki. As I’ve said elsewhere, the forum wiki doesn’t do this, because users aren’t encouraged to synethise content, only give a brief summary of the topic area.
We should have summaries of other nearby cultures and how they differ from us
There should be a community-curated list of disagreements in EA with links to the most up to date discussions