Maybe the top X posts on the EA Forum? Also maybe adjacent things like Top 10 blog posts read by EAs overall, Top 10 posts on LessWrong, top 5 books, top 5 academic papers etc?
I think reading things already read by many EAs, in addition to being intrinsically useful (presumably the fact that many other EAs read a post is evidence towards it being actually good) is also advantageous for coordination as an intellectual community. For new writing, if you find it safe to assume that (at least for non-introductory posts), 99% of your audience is familiar with Y concept, then you can make more progress compared to worlds where you can only assume that 70% of your audience is familiar with Y.
(Obviously there is also value in having diversity in thought and knowledge among EAs, but that’s less relevant to this question).
Maybe the top X posts on the EA Forum? Also maybe adjacent things like Top 10 blog posts read by EAs overall, Top 10 posts on LessWrong, top 5 books, top 5 academic papers etc?
I think reading things already read by many EAs, in addition to being intrinsically useful (presumably the fact that many other EAs read a post is evidence towards it being actually good) is also advantageous for coordination as an intellectual community. For new writing, if you find it safe to assume that (at least for non-introductory posts), 99% of your audience is familiar with Y concept, then you can make more progress compared to worlds where you can only assume that 70% of your audience is familiar with Y.
(Obviously there is also value in having diversity in thought and knowledge among EAs, but that’s less relevant to this question).