I completely agree that it depends on the intended audience.
I think for RP, you’re often researching a particular question for a very particular small audience that is more or less guaranteed to read your results. It actually is far more similar to school than most EA Forum writing. In such (and all cases), definitely cater it to your audience.
One thing I think I should’ve made more clear in my comment was that I think it is, as far as I can tell and at least for right now, it is typically better for the marginal EA to invest in “find a small, powerful niche audience (i.e., writing for 10-100 people) and cater your content specifically to them” than to invest in broad outreach (i.e., writing for >5000 people). I think it is easier to do the former (at least within EA) and that, impact-weighted, you often achieve more impactful results.
Personal fit and interest, though, would be a very important consideration though and I definitely endorse those who are more interested and skilled at broad outreach to do that. I certainly wouldn’t tell Robert Miles or Scott Alexander to quit their broad outreach work!
I completely agree that it depends on the intended audience.
I think for RP, you’re often researching a particular question for a very particular small audience that is more or less guaranteed to read your results. It actually is far more similar to school than most EA Forum writing. In such (and all cases), definitely cater it to your audience.
One thing I think I should’ve made more clear in my comment was that I think it is, as far as I can tell and at least for right now, it is typically better for the marginal EA to invest in “find a small, powerful niche audience (i.e., writing for 10-100 people) and cater your content specifically to them” than to invest in broad outreach (i.e., writing for >5000 people). I think it is easier to do the former (at least within EA) and that, impact-weighted, you often achieve more impactful results.
Personal fit and interest, though, would be a very important consideration though and I definitely endorse those who are more interested and skilled at broad outreach to do that. I certainly wouldn’t tell Robert Miles or Scott Alexander to quit their broad outreach work!