I don’t have time to write a detailed self-review, but I can say that:
I still think this is one my most useful posts; I think it’s pretty obvious that something like this should exist, and I recommend it often, and I see it cited/recommended often.
I think it’s kind of crazy that nothing very much like this database existed before I made it, especially given how simple making it was.
Note that I made this in not a huge amount of time and when still very “junior”; I was within 4 months of posting my first EA Forum post and within 2 years of having first learned of EA. So it really seems like other people could’ve done it too!
I’ve also continued to come across more examples of that since making this database (see here for an example and links to some other examples).
I’ve recently realised various ways this database could be improved, which are essentially exemplified in a “Database of nuclear risk estimates” I’m now working on. Please contact me if you might be interested in making a copy of this database that includes these improvements I’ve now thought of. In that case, I could probably share with you my in-progress nuclear risk database and an accompanying doc & slideshow (so you see what improvements I’m talking about), have a call if useful, review your new version of this database once you’ve drafted it, and then replace links to this database with a link to the improved version you make (with you credited, of course).
Though I reserve the right to back out of that arrangement if there’s some reason I should back out.
If you’d want to be paid for this, let me know, and I could probably promise to do so if you do a really good job and it doesn’t take up too much of my time.
I don’t have time to write a detailed self-review, but I can say that:
I still think this is one my most useful posts; I think it’s pretty obvious that something like this should exist, and I recommend it often, and I see it cited/recommended often.
I think it’s kind of crazy that nothing very much like this database existed before I made it, especially given how simple making it was.
Note that I made this in not a huge amount of time and when still very “junior”; I was within 4 months of posting my first EA Forum post and within 2 years of having first learned of EA. So it really seems like other people could’ve done it too!
I had already noted earlier in 2020 that there seemed to be many low-hanging fruit in the form of making summaries and collections of EA-relevant stuff, and that therefore I’d encourage people to try making such things. I think this database not existing till I made it is a good example of that.
I’ve also continued to come across more examples of that since making this database (see here for an example and links to some other examples).
I’ve recently realised various ways this database could be improved, which are essentially exemplified in a “Database of nuclear risk estimates” I’m now working on. Please contact me if you might be interested in making a copy of this database that includes these improvements I’ve now thought of. In that case, I could probably share with you my in-progress nuclear risk database and an accompanying doc & slideshow (so you see what improvements I’m talking about), have a call if useful, review your new version of this database once you’ve drafted it, and then replace links to this database with a link to the improved version you make (with you credited, of course).
Though I reserve the right to back out of that arrangement if there’s some reason I should back out.
If you’d want to be paid for this, let me know, and I could probably promise to do so if you do a really good job and it doesn’t take up too much of my time.
EDIT: I think the post itself was a bit too meandering and self-doubting. I structured my thoughts better in my later lightning talk on roughly the same subject. Here’s a transcript.