Eventually, weād like it to be the case that almost all well-written EA content exists on the Forum somewhere.
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I meant āquite EA-relevant and well-writtenā. I donāt especially care whether the content is written by community members, though I suppose thatās slightly preferable (as community members are much more likely to respond to comments on their work).
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A single crosspost with a bit of context from the authorāe.g. a few sentences each of summary/āhighlights, commentary, and action items/ātakeawaysāseems better to me than three or four crossposts with no context at all. In my view, the best Forum content tends to give busy people a quick way to decide whether to read further.
And I read a lot of stuff that I think it could be useful for at least some other EAs to read, and that isnāt (link)posted to the Forum. So Aaronās comments, combined with my own thinking and some comments from other people, make me think itād be good for me to make linkposts for lots of that stuff if there was a way to do it that took up very little of my time.
Unfortunately, writing proper book reviews, or even just notes that are geared for public consumption, for all of those things I read would probably take a while.
But, starting about a month ago, I now make Anki cards for myself anyway during most of the reading I do. So maybe I should just make posts sort-of like this one for most particularly interesting things I read? And maybe other people could start doing that too?
A big uncertainty I have is how often the cards I make myself would be able to transmit useful ideas even to people who (a) arenāt me and (b) didnāt read the thing I read, and how often theyād do that with an efficiency comparable to people just finding and reading useful sources themselves directly. Another, related uncertainty is whether thereād be any demand for posts like this.
So Iād be interested in peopleās thoughts on the above.
As an avid Anki user, I actually prefer a deck over a review or a summary, other things equal. Most people donāt use Anki or other spaced-repetition software, though, so they are unlikely to share this preference.
Incidentally, could you make the deck available as an apkg file?
Hereās a deck of all my nuclear-war-related cards so far. Most arenāt from Schelling, but if you just want those I think it should be easy enough to delete the rest (all the Schelling-related ones says Schelling somewhere).
I havenāt shared an Anki deck before, so let me know if it doesnāt work.
(Edited to add: Iāve now edited the post itself to include a link to this deck.)
Meta: Does this sort of post seem useful? Should there be more posts like this?
I previously asked Should pretty much all content thatās EA-relevant and/āor created by EAs be (link)posted to the Forum? I found Aaron Gertlerās response interesting and useful. Among other things, he said:
And I read a lot of stuff that I think it could be useful for at least some other EAs to read, and that isnāt (link)posted to the Forum. So Aaronās comments, combined with my own thinking and some comments from other people, make me think itād be good for me to make linkposts for lots of that stuff if there was a way to do it that took up very little of my time.
Unfortunately, writing proper book reviews, or even just notes that are geared for public consumption, for all of those things I read would probably take a while.
But, starting about a month ago, I now make Anki cards for myself anyway during most of the reading I do. So maybe I should just make posts sort-of like this one for most particularly interesting things I read? And maybe other people could start doing that too?
A big uncertainty I have is how often the cards I make myself would be able to transmit useful ideas even to people who (a) arenāt me and (b) didnāt read the thing I read, and how often theyād do that with an efficiency comparable to people just finding and reading useful sources themselves directly. Another, related uncertainty is whether thereād be any demand for posts like this.
So Iād be interested in peopleās thoughts on the above.
As an avid Anki user, I actually prefer a deck over a review or a summary, other things equal. Most people donāt use Anki or other spaced-repetition software, though, so they are unlikely to share this preference.
Incidentally, could you make the deck available as an apkg file?
Hereās a deck of all my nuclear-war-related cards so far. Most arenāt from Schelling, but if you just want those I think it should be easy enough to delete the rest (all the Schelling-related ones says Schelling somewhere).
I havenāt shared an Anki deck before, so let me know if it doesnāt work.
(Edited to add: Iāve now edited the post itself to include a link to this deck.)