Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the flow and distribution of information (as in facts/ideas/natural language) as a meta level problem. It seems to me that “ensuring the most valuable information finds its way to the people who need it” could make a huge difference to a lot of things, including productivity, well-being, and problem-solving of any kind, particularly for EAs. (if anybody reading this is knowledgeable in this broad area, please reach out!)
Your post appears to focus on a very related issue, which is how EAs source their EA information and some specific ways to improve it. I definitely agree that this is an issue worth looking into and worth improving (I personally think that either the EA forum or the EA Hub are in the best position to make such improvements, although I’m unsure what these improvements would look like).
The EA Forum Job Hunt idea admittedly doesn’t seem very promising to me from how I understood it—it sounds like by far the most work of all the suggestions, for a problem that, to me, seems as if it’s solved to a pretty reasonable degree.
I don’t quite understand the EA Hub suggestion. What would be submitted and upvoted? Just the existence of (local) groups?
The remaining points regarding Twitter bots and feeds sound good to me, simply because they sound like very little work (unless I’m misjudging that), while potentially being helpful to probably many dozens of EAs.
By the way I do wonder what ratio of EAs is actively using twitter. I for once am not at all, and am not aware of many people I know personally doing so, but that might not mean much and not be very representative.
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the flow and distribution of information (as in facts/ideas/natural language) as a meta level problem. It seems to me that “ensuring the most valuable information finds its way to the people who need it” could make a huge difference to a lot of things, including productivity, well-being, and problem-solving of any kind, particularly for EAs. (if anybody reading this is knowledgeable in this broad area, please reach out!)
Your post appears to focus on a very related issue, which is how EAs source their EA information and some specific ways to improve it. I definitely agree that this is an issue worth looking into and worth improving (I personally think that either the EA forum or the EA Hub are in the best position to make such improvements, although I’m unsure what these improvements would look like).
The EA Forum Job Hunt idea admittedly doesn’t seem very promising to me from how I understood it—it sounds like by far the most work of all the suggestions, for a problem that, to me, seems as if it’s solved to a pretty reasonable degree.
I don’t quite understand the EA Hub suggestion. What would be submitted and upvoted? Just the existence of (local) groups?
The remaining points regarding Twitter bots and feeds sound good to me, simply because they sound like very little work (unless I’m misjudging that), while potentially being helpful to probably many dozens of EAs.
By the way I do wonder what ratio of EAs is actively using twitter. I for once am not at all, and am not aware of many people I know personally doing so, but that might not mean much and not be very representative.