A comment is that there are things that one probably doesn’t encounter in the first 10-20 hours that can be hugely useful (at least for me) in thinking about EA (both general and domain specific), e.g. this. (Perhaps that means things like that should work their way into key intro materials...)
In general I wish there were a better compilation of EA materials from intro to advanced levels. For intro materials, perhaps this is good. Beyond that, there are good content from
80,000 Hours career guides, problem profiles, and blog posts (some being domain specific, e.g. AI safety syllabus—not sure if such things exist for other cause areas)
Selected blog posts from EA orgs like GiveWell and Open Phil (there are many, but some are more meta and of general interest to EA, e.g. GiveWell blog post I mentioned above)
Selected blog posts from individual EAs or EA-adjacent people
Selected EA forum and Facebook group posts (there are too many, but perhaps the ones winning the EA forum prize are a good starting point)
EA Newsletter
David Nash’s monthly summaries of EA-related content (here is one)
It would be great if there exists one (for general EA as well as specific topics / cause areas). It should probably be a living document being updated. It should ideally prioritize—going down some order of importance so people with limited time could work their way through. Of course, selection is inherently subjective.
Perhaps the best way is to refer people to EA forum, newsletter, various blogs etc. But it seems nice to have a list of good articles from the past. Someone could work their way through it e.g. during their commute.
(Really not sure about the marginal value of this. Just thought of it as I keep seeing older posts, which are quite interesting, being referred to in EA forum posts; perhaps if a post were interesting enough I would come across someone citing it sometime, but there are definitely things I felt were pretty interesting and I could have missed. I’m not confident about the value, but worth thinking about perhaps part of our movement building work. Even partial work on this could be valuable—doing the first “20%” that has “80%” value, metaphorically.)
Thanks Linch for the post!
A comment is that there are things that one probably doesn’t encounter in the first 10-20 hours that can be hugely useful (at least for me) in thinking about EA (both general and domain specific), e.g. this. (Perhaps that means things like that should work their way into key intro materials...)
In general I wish there were a better compilation of EA materials from intro to advanced levels. For intro materials, perhaps this is good. Beyond that, there are good content from
80,000 Hours career guides, problem profiles, and blog posts (some being domain specific, e.g. AI safety syllabus—not sure if such things exist for other cause areas)
Selected blog posts from EA orgs like GiveWell and Open Phil (there are many, but some are more meta and of general interest to EA, e.g. GiveWell blog post I mentioned above)
Selected blog posts from individual EAs or EA-adjacent people
Selected EA forum and Facebook group posts (there are too many, but perhaps the ones winning the EA forum prize are a good starting point)
EA Newsletter
David Nash’s monthly summaries of EA-related content (here is one)
It would be great if there exists one (for general EA as well as specific topics / cause areas). It should probably be a living document being updated. It should ideally prioritize—going down some order of importance so people with limited time could work their way through. Of course, selection is inherently subjective.
Perhaps the best way is to refer people to EA forum, newsletter, various blogs etc. But it seems nice to have a list of good articles from the past. Someone could work their way through it e.g. during their commute.
(Really not sure about the marginal value of this. Just thought of it as I keep seeing older posts, which are quite interesting, being referred to in EA forum posts; perhaps if a post were interesting enough I would come across someone citing it sometime, but there are definitely things I felt were pretty interesting and I could have missed. I’m not confident about the value, but worth thinking about perhaps part of our movement building work. Even partial work on this could be valuable—doing the first “20%” that has “80%” value, metaphorically.)