Meta: It seems to me that the EA community talks about “red teaming” our own work a lot more often than they did half a year ago. It’s unclear to me how much my ownshortforms instigated this, vs. e.g. independent convergence.
This seems like a mildly important thing for me to track, as it seems important to me to gauge what fraction of my simple but original-ish ideas are only counterfactually a few months “ahead of the curve,” vs genuinely novel and useful for longer.
Meta: It seems to me that the EA community talks about “red teaming” our own work a lot more often than they did half a year ago. It’s unclear to me how much my own shortforms instigated this, vs. e.g. independent convergence.
This seems like a mildly important thing for me to track, as it seems important to me to gauge what fraction of my simple but original-ish ideas are only counterfactually a few months “ahead of the curve,” vs genuinely novel and useful for longer.
I’ve thinking about this. My conscious inspiration was Nuno’s posts evaluating LTFF grantees and longtermist orgs (June 2021).