This project sounds great, I love how you flesh out the plan and pre-commit to it.
I have a minor concern, which might be mistaken as I don’t have any relevant experience. In the “what we can learn from religious texts”-section you mentioned potential applications to community building and spreading ideas. However, the process involves a synthesis of verses more directly related to EA. Also, I imagine that general lessons about how religious communities and ideas evolved have been investigated quite a bit in the academy and might have used historical sources and sociological methods. So all this makes me less excited about these specific applications.
On the other hand, I hope that it will inform more about how to communicate better with religious groups and lead to a better understanding of how EA-related views were seen in the past.
Also, David Manheim is doing some work on the space of Judaism and EA.
This project sounds great, I love how you flesh out the plan and pre-commit to it.
I have a minor concern, which might be mistaken as I don’t have any relevant experience. In the “what we can learn from religious texts”-section you mentioned potential applications to community building and spreading ideas. However, the process involves a synthesis of verses more directly related to EA. Also, I imagine that general lessons about how religious communities and ideas evolved have been investigated quite a bit in the academy and might have used historical sources and sociological methods. So all this makes me less excited about these specific applications.
On the other hand, I hope that it will inform more about how to communicate better with religious groups and lead to a better understanding of how EA-related views were seen in the past.
Also, David Manheim is doing some work on the space of Judaism and EA.