Eventually, weâd like it to be the case that almost all well-written EA content exists on the Forum somewhere.
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I meant âquite EA-relevant and well-writtenâ. I donât especially care whether the content is written by community members, though I suppose thatâs 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 authorâe.g. a few sentences each of summary/âhighlights, commentary, and action items/âtakeawaysâseems 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 isnât (link)posted to the Forum. So Aaronâs comments, combined with my own thinking and some comments from other people, make me think itâd 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) arenât me and (b) didnât read the thing I read, and how often theyâd do that with an efficiency comparable to people just finding and reading useful sources themselves directly. Another, related uncertainty is whether thereâd be any demand for posts like this.
So Iâd be interested in peopleâs 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 donât 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?
Hereâs a deck of all my nuclear-war-related cards so far. Most arenât 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 havenât shared an Anki deck before, so let me know if it doesnât work.
(Edited to add: Iâve 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 thatâs EA-relevant and/âor created by EAs be (link)posted to the Forum? I found Aaron Gertlerâs 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 isnât (link)posted to the Forum. So Aaronâs comments, combined with my own thinking and some comments from other people, make me think itâd 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) arenât me and (b) didnât read the thing I read, and how often theyâd do that with an efficiency comparable to people just finding and reading useful sources themselves directly. Another, related uncertainty is whether thereâd be any demand for posts like this.
So Iâd be interested in peopleâs 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 donât 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?
Hereâs a deck of all my nuclear-war-related cards so far. Most arenât 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 havenât shared an Anki deck before, so let me know if it doesnât work.
(Edited to add: Iâve now edited the post itself to include a link to this deck.)