I also just think in any case more people should post their notes, key takeaways, and (if they make them) Anki cards to the Forum, as either top-level posts or shortforms. I think this need only take ~30 mins of extra time on top of the time they spend reading or note-taking or whatever for their own benefit. (But doing what you propose would still add value by incentivising more effortful and even more useful versions of this.)
There are many topics where I’d love to know the basic EA-relevant takeaways [...]
The main takeaways that relate to vastly improving the world, with emphasis on the surprising ones
Yeah, I think this is worth emphasising, since:
Those are things existing, non-EA summaries of the books are less likely to provide
Those are things that even another EA reading the same book might not think of
Coming up with key takeaways is an analytical exercise and will often draw on specific other knowledge, intuitions, experiences, etc. the reader has
Yeah, this seems good to me.
I also just think in any case more people should post their notes, key takeaways, and (if they make them) Anki cards to the Forum, as either top-level posts or shortforms. I think this need only take ~30 mins of extra time on top of the time they spend reading or note-taking or whatever for their own benefit. (But doing what you propose would still add value by incentivising more effortful and even more useful versions of this.)
Yeah, I think this is worth emphasising, since:
Those are things existing, non-EA summaries of the books are less likely to provide
Those are things that even another EA reading the same book might not think of
Coming up with key takeaways is an analytical exercise and will often draw on specific other knowledge, intuitions, experiences, etc. the reader has
Also, readers of this shortform may find posts tagged effective altruism books interesting.