just brainstorming in a very unconstrained way on relevant questions (e.g. “babble”)
trying some systematic ways to identify implicit assumptions in our existing beliefs and ideas, and questioning them
looking at existing entities (orgs, fields, causes, tools...) and thinking about how they could be different
share ideas more effectively in the movement
encourage sharing in the first place (makes me sad to read of posts people started in the past but never finished)
good compression of ideas (e.g. short posts, descriptive titles, beginning with a summary)
make things easy to find via search
talk to other EAs about your ideas
get feedback early on
maybe twitter is good for this?
actual implementation
a lot of ideas may exist, e.g. in the dusty archives of this forum, that nobody has ever acted on and people have more or less forgotten about or never heard of in the first place
some (or many) people may generally be more interested in thinking—maybe EA is implementation constrained rather than idea constrained after all? (but I guess there are a lot of constraints anyway, and they vary substantially by who you ask; so idea constraints most certainly are a thing, affecting some more than others)
Some thoughts (not to say ideas) regarding 3:
come up with more ideas
just brainstorming in a very unconstrained way on relevant questions (e.g. “babble”)
trying some systematic ways to identify implicit assumptions in our existing beliefs and ideas, and questioning them
looking at existing entities (orgs, fields, causes, tools...) and thinking about how they could be different
share ideas more effectively in the movement
encourage sharing in the first place (makes me sad to read of posts people started in the past but never finished)
good compression of ideas (e.g. short posts, descriptive titles, beginning with a summary)
make things easy to find via search
talk to other EAs about your ideas
get feedback early on
maybe twitter is good for this?
actual implementation
a lot of ideas may exist, e.g. in the dusty archives of this forum, that nobody has ever acted on and people have more or less forgotten about or never heard of in the first place
some (or many) people may generally be more interested in thinking—maybe EA is implementation constrained rather than idea constrained after all? (but I guess there are a lot of constraints anyway, and they vary substantially by who you ask; so idea constraints most certainly are a thing, affecting some more than others)