If I could wave a magic wand and change the EA community, I’d have everyone constantly posting little 5-hour research overviews of the best causes within almost-random cause areas and preliminary bad suggested donation targets. So: How to reduce Christianity? How to get people to heaven? Best way to speed up nanomedicine? Best way to reduce ageism? Best way to slow down economic progress?
Even simpler than fact posts and shallow investigations would be skyping experts in different fields and writing up the conversation. Total time per expert is about 2 hours − 1 hour for the conversation, 1 hour for writing up.
Anonymous #6:
Relevant resources:
Fact Posts: How and Why
The Open Philanthropy Project’s Shallow Investigations provide nice template examples.
The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship
Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently
I’m fairly new to the EA Forum, maybe someone who’s been here longer knows of other resources on this site.
Even simpler than fact posts and shallow investigations would be skyping experts in different fields and writing up the conversation. Total time per expert is about 2 hours − 1 hour for the conversation, 1 hour for writing up.