Individually, altruists (to the extent that they endorse actually doing good) can make a habit of asking themselves and others what risks they may be overlooking, dismissing, or downplaying.
I think this works well when done in private, but asking around among friends is difficult for people who don’t have an extensive EA network and risks that they inadvertently only ask around within their filter bubble.
Asking around publicly, e.g., on the Forum, is something that I and probably others too have mostly come to regret. Currently it’s still uncommon to try to red-team your own interventions publicly, so when someone does do it, the intervention is not perceived as particularly well red-teamed but as particularly risky.
This could be avoided by making such red-teaming a lot more common, but that is hard. Perhaps a dedicated subforum could help too, one where only people interested in helping with such red-teaming efforts see the posts.
I think this works well when done in private, but asking around among friends is difficult for people who don’t have an extensive EA network and risks that they inadvertently only ask around within their filter bubble.
Asking around publicly, e.g., on the Forum, is something that I and probably others too have mostly come to regret. Currently it’s still uncommon to try to red-team your own interventions publicly, so when someone does do it, the intervention is not perceived as particularly well red-teamed but as particularly risky.
This could be avoided by making such red-teaming a lot more common, but that is hard. Perhaps a dedicated subforum could help too, one where only people interested in helping with such red-teaming efforts see the posts.