It’s true that this is pretty abstract (as abstract as fundamental epistemology posts), but because of that I’d expect it to be a relevant perspective for most strategies one might build, whether for AI safety, global governance, poverty reduction, or climate change. It’s lacking the examples and explicit connections though that make this salient. In a future post that I’ve got queued on AI safety strategy I already have a link to this one, and in general abstract articles like this provide a nice base to build from toward specifics. I’ll definitely think about, and possibly experiment with, putting the more abstract and conceptual posts on LessWrong.
If you plan on future posts which will apply elements of this writing, that’s a handy thing to note in the initial post!
You could also see what I’m advocating here as “write posts that bring the base and specifics together”; I think that will make material like this easier to understand for people who run across it when it first gets posted.
If you’re working on posts that rely on a collection of concepts/definitions, you could also consider using Shortform posts to lay out the “pieces” before you assemble them in a post. None of this is mandatory, of course; I just want to lay out what possibilities exist given the Forum’s current features.
It’s true that this is pretty abstract (as abstract as fundamental epistemology posts), but because of that I’d expect it to be a relevant perspective for most strategies one might build, whether for AI safety, global governance, poverty reduction, or climate change. It’s lacking the examples and explicit connections though that make this salient. In a future post that I’ve got queued on AI safety strategy I already have a link to this one, and in general abstract articles like this provide a nice base to build from toward specifics. I’ll definitely think about, and possibly experiment with, putting the more abstract and conceptual posts on LessWrong.
If you plan on future posts which will apply elements of this writing, that’s a handy thing to note in the initial post!
You could also see what I’m advocating here as “write posts that bring the base and specifics together”; I think that will make material like this easier to understand for people who run across it when it first gets posted.
If you’re working on posts that rely on a collection of concepts/definitions, you could also consider using Shortform posts to lay out the “pieces” before you assemble them in a post. None of this is mandatory, of course; I just want to lay out what possibilities exist given the Forum’s current features.