Shouldn’t we have more EA editors in Philpapers categories?
Philpapers is this huge index/community of academic philosophers and texts. It’s a good place to start researching a topic. Part of the work is done by voluntary editors and assistants, who assume the responsibility of categorizing and including relevant bibliography; in exchange, they are constantly in touch with the corresponding subject. Some EAs are responsible for their corresponding fields; however, I noticed that some relevant EA-related categories currently have no editor (e.g.: Impact of Artificial Intelligence). I wonder: wouldn’t it be useful if EAs assumed these positions?
I’m not familiar with academic philosophy/how Philpapers is typically used. Can you say more about what you’d expect the positive outcome(s) to be if EAs volunteer to help out? I can imagine that this might improve the quality of papers on EA-adjacent topics, but your mention of volunteers always being up-to-date on the literature makes me wonder if you’re also thinking of beneficial learning for the volunteers themselves.
I’m thinking on both: adequately categorizing papers may have an indirect impact on how other scholars select their bibliographical references; and the volunteer editors themselves may acquire (or anticipate its acquisition—I suppose that, if a paper is really good, you’ll likely end up finding it anyway) knowledge of their corresponding domains.
Of course, perhaps the answer is “it’s already hard enough to catch up with the posts on such-and-such subjects in the EA and rationalist community, and read the standard literature, and do original work, etc. - and you still want me to work as a quasi-librarian for free?”
This suggestion is worth posting in other places. You could consider emailing places like Forethought or FHI that have a lot of philosophers, or posting in FB groups like “EA Fundamental Research” or “EA Volunteering”.
Too bad I don’t have a Facebook account anymore… I’d appreciate if someone else (whou found it useful, of course) could raise this subject in those groups.
(man, do I miss the memes!)
Or I could just post it as a Question in this forum, to get more visibility.
Shouldn’t we have more EA editors in Philpapers categories?
Philpapers is this huge index/community of academic philosophers and texts. It’s a good place to start researching a topic. Part of the work is done by voluntary editors and assistants, who assume the responsibility of categorizing and including relevant bibliography; in exchange, they are constantly in touch with the corresponding subject. Some EAs are responsible for their corresponding fields; however, I noticed that some relevant EA-related categories currently have no editor (e.g.: Impact of Artificial Intelligence). I wonder: wouldn’t it be useful if EAs assumed these positions?
I’m not familiar with academic philosophy/how Philpapers is typically used. Can you say more about what you’d expect the positive outcome(s) to be if EAs volunteer to help out? I can imagine that this might improve the quality of papers on EA-adjacent topics, but your mention of volunteers always being up-to-date on the literature makes me wonder if you’re also thinking of beneficial learning for the volunteers themselves.
I’m thinking on both: adequately categorizing papers may have an indirect impact on how other scholars select their bibliographical references; and the volunteer editors themselves may acquire (or anticipate its acquisition—I suppose that, if a paper is really good, you’ll likely end up finding it anyway) knowledge of their corresponding domains.
Of course, perhaps the answer is “it’s already hard enough to catch up with the posts on such-and-such subjects in the EA and rationalist community, and read the standard literature, and do original work, etc. - and you still want me to work as a quasi-librarian for free?”
This suggestion is worth posting in other places. You could consider emailing places like Forethought or FHI that have a lot of philosophers, or posting in FB groups like “EA Fundamental Research” or “EA Volunteering”.
Too bad I don’t have a Facebook account anymore… I’d appreciate if someone else (whou found it useful, of course) could raise this subject in those groups.
(man, do I miss the memes!)
Or I could just post it as a Question in this forum, to get more visibility.
Thanks.