Often, to be honest, it goes the other way. The average engaged EA knows a tremendous amount about EA, whereas many educated readers (including academics, who are another key part of my audience) know relatively little.
I guess one key audience of mine is academic philosophers. This audience often wants to see discussions of philosophical issues in population ethics, decision theory, and the like at a level that assumes quite a high level of background (often, alas, more than I have!).
I think in practice I often don’t provide the second audience (academics, especially philosophers) with as much content as I’d like for them, and I’m trying to do what I can to grow my audience a bit more evenly.
I don’t think either of these should really be a barrier to posting on the forum. There is a lot of introductory content here that restates what people already know—they can always just skip over those sections—and likewise there is a lot of technical material that is inaccessible to the median reader—and that is also fine!
Often, to be honest, it goes the other way. The average engaged EA knows a tremendous amount about EA, whereas many educated readers (including academics, who are another key part of my audience) know relatively little.
I guess one key audience of mine is academic philosophers. This audience often wants to see discussions of philosophical issues in population ethics, decision theory, and the like at a level that assumes quite a high level of background (often, alas, more than I have!).
I think in practice I often don’t provide the second audience (academics, especially philosophers) with as much content as I’d like for them, and I’m trying to do what I can to grow my audience a bit more evenly.
I don’t think either of these should really be a barrier to posting on the forum. There is a lot of introductory content here that restates what people already know—they can always just skip over those sections—and likewise there is a lot of technical material that is inaccessible to the median reader—and that is also fine!