I think the Center for Reducing Suffering’s Open Research Questions may be a helpful addition to Research ideas. (Do let me know if you think otherwise!)
I think the Center for Reducing Suffering’s Open Research Questions may be a helpful addition to Research ideas. (Do let me know if you think otherwise!)
I definitely think that that list is within-scope for this document, but (or “and relatedly”) I’ve already got it in the Central directory for open research questions that’s linked to from here.
There are many relevant collections of research questions, and I’ve already included all the ones I’m aware of in that other post. So I think it doesn’t make sense to add any here unless I think the collection is especially worth highlighting to people interested in testing their fit for (longtermism-related) research.
I think the 80k collection fits that bill due to being curated, organised by discipline, and aimed at giving a representative sense of many different areas. I think my “Crucial questions” post fits that bill due to being aimed at overviewing the whole landscape of longtermism in a fairly comprehensive and structured way (though of course, there’s probably some bias in my assessment here!).
I think my history topics collection fits that bill, but I’m less sure. So I’ve now added below it the disclaimer “This is somewhat less noteworthy than the other links”.
I think my RSP doc doesn’t fit that bill, really, so in the process of writing this comment I’ve decided to move that out of this post and into my Central directory post.
(The fact that this post evolved out of notes I shared with people also helps explain why stuff I wrote has perhaps undue prominence here.)
Thanks for sharing, Michael!
I think the Center for Reducing Suffering’s Open Research Questions may be a helpful addition to Research ideas. (Do let me know if you think otherwise!)
Relatedly, CRS has an internship opportunity.
Also, perhaps this is intentional but “Readings and notes on how to do high-impact research” is repeated twice in the list.
Thanks for mentioning this—I’ll now added it to the “Programs [...]” section :)
This was intentional, but I think I no longer endorse that decision, so I’ve now removed the second mention.
I definitely think that that list is within-scope for this document, but (or “and relatedly”) I’ve already got it in the Central directory for open research questions that’s linked to from here.
There are many relevant collections of research questions, and I’ve already included all the ones I’m aware of in that other post. So I think it doesn’t make sense to add any here unless I think the collection is especially worth highlighting to people interested in testing their fit for (longtermism-related) research.
I think the 80k collection fits that bill due to being curated, organised by discipline, and aimed at giving a representative sense of many different areas. I think my “Crucial questions” post fits that bill due to being aimed at overviewing the whole landscape of longtermism in a fairly comprehensive and structured way (though of course, there’s probably some bias in my assessment here!).
I think my history topics collection fits that bill, but I’m less sure. So I’ve now added below it the disclaimer “This is somewhat less noteworthy than the other links”.
I think my RSP doc doesn’t fit that bill, really, so in the process of writing this comment I’ve decided to move that out of this post and into my Central directory post.
(The fact that this post evolved out of notes I shared with people also helps explain why stuff I wrote has perhaps undue prominence here.)