I think OP omitted many details of why it might be plausible, and I wouldn’t expect the disagree voters to have any idea about what’s going on there:
To me, the literary value of EA stories is thinking through psychological context of trying to think more clearly, trying to be good, whatever. Building empathy for “how you would derive EA-shaped things and then build on them from within a social reward surface that isn’t explicitly selecting for that?”, “what emotional frictions or mistake classes would I expect?”, seems plausibly quite valuable for a ton of people.
Basically every other thing you could say about the value prop of reading Methods is downstream of this! “upskilling” was an intense word choice, but only 95% wrong.
With that in mind, I do think a ton of topics salient to EAs show up within Methods and many of them get thoroughly explored.
I think OP omitted many details of why it might be plausible, and I wouldn’t expect the disagree voters to have any idea about what’s going on there:
To me, the literary value of EA stories is thinking through psychological context of trying to think more clearly, trying to be good, whatever. Building empathy for “how you would derive EA-shaped things and then build on them from within a social reward surface that isn’t explicitly selecting for that?”, “what emotional frictions or mistake classes would I expect?”, seems plausibly quite valuable for a ton of people.
Basically every other thing you could say about the value prop of reading Methods is downstream of this! “upskilling” was an intense word choice, but only 95% wrong.
With that in mind, I do think a ton of topics salient to EAs show up within Methods and many of them get thoroughly explored.