My two cents: I can understand why you’d want to not post 2, if you believe it had those issues. But it seems like, if 3b is already written, it might as well be posted, unless you think it’s fundamentally mistaken. If you just think that EA climate change research is a less valuable approach than you used to, then maybe you could slap some extra caveats and updates at the top. It could still potentially serve as some useful thoughts for people who do pursue that approach, or serve as an explanation of why you think that approach isn’t that valuable, or that sort of thing.
I’m not personally very focused on climate change, and don’t think I’d personally read the post. But I have a general sense that posts that are just “maybe not very novel or useful” still might as well be posted, once the effort has gone into writing them. It seems like they may at least be appreciated in some way by some niche audience, or suggest to others that that topic isn’t worth them writing about. And worst case scenario is usually just they don’t get read much, or slightly waste a few people’s time.
This doesn’t apply to posts that are so incorrect they’d leave people with worse beliefs, or posts that pose information hazards, but it didn’t sound like you thought those things were true of 3b?
My two cents: I can understand why you’d want to not post 2, if you believe it had those issues. But it seems like, if 3b is already written, it might as well be posted, unless you think it’s fundamentally mistaken. If you just think that EA climate change research is a less valuable approach than you used to, then maybe you could slap some extra caveats and updates at the top. It could still potentially serve as some useful thoughts for people who do pursue that approach, or serve as an explanation of why you think that approach isn’t that valuable, or that sort of thing.
I’m not personally very focused on climate change, and don’t think I’d personally read the post. But I have a general sense that posts that are just “maybe not very novel or useful” still might as well be posted, once the effort has gone into writing them. It seems like they may at least be appreciated in some way by some niche audience, or suggest to others that that topic isn’t worth them writing about. And worst case scenario is usually just they don’t get read much, or slightly waste a few people’s time.
This doesn’t apply to posts that are so incorrect they’d leave people with worse beliefs, or posts that pose information hazards, but it didn’t sound like you thought those things were true of 3b?