Have you considered writing single blog post summaries of your projects? I suspect that this would greatly increase their influence within the wider EA community because only the people who are most interested in a topic are likely to read a whole sequence on it?
Thanks for your question, Chris. We hear you about the importance of making the content accessible. We’ve aimed to include the main takeaways in intro and conclusion posts that can be easily skimmed. We also provide an executive summary at the beginning of each post. We hope that these help, but we take the point that it may not be obvious that we’ve taken these steps, and we’ll revisit this suggestion in future sequences to make sure the purposes of those posts and introductory materials are clear. It may also be useful for us to consider more visual summaries of some of our results, as we provided for our discussion of human extinction. Do you have any concrete suggestions given the approach we’ve adopted so far?
That seems reasonable. I guess the downside is that some people might see the sequence and think it’s too much so never click into it and realise that structure. But obv. there are trade-offs here in that time spent writing single post summaries could be spent elsewhere.
Do you have any thoughts about how we could highlight more clearly that the main posts introducing the tools (Portfolio and Parliament) are key things people should read if they just want to read one thing?
Not to downplay the value of the other posts in the sequence (and I think the other technicalsupplements are useful too), but I think just reading those posts (and using the tools!) would capture most of the value of the sequence for most people.
Have you considered writing single blog post summaries of your projects? I suspect that this would greatly increase their influence within the wider EA community because only the people who are most interested in a topic are likely to read a whole sequence on it?
Thanks for your question, Chris. We hear you about the importance of making the content accessible. We’ve aimed to include the main takeaways in intro and conclusion posts that can be easily skimmed. We also provide an executive summary at the beginning of each post. We hope that these help, but we take the point that it may not be obvious that we’ve taken these steps, and we’ll revisit this suggestion in future sequences to make sure the purposes of those posts and introductory materials are clear. It may also be useful for us to consider more visual summaries of some of our results, as we provided for our discussion of human extinction. Do you have any concrete suggestions given the approach we’ve adopted so far?
That seems reasonable. I guess the downside is that some people might see the sequence and think it’s too much so never click into it and realise that structure. But obv. there are trade-offs here in that time spent writing single post summaries could be spent elsewhere.
Do you have any thoughts about how we could highlight more clearly that the main posts introducing the tools (Portfolio and Parliament) are key things people should read if they just want to read one thing?
Not to downplay the value of the other posts in the sequence (and I think the other technical supplements are useful too), but I think just reading those posts (and using the tools!) would capture most of the value of the sequence for most people.
No strong thoughts.