I would love for utilitarianism.net to host high-quality summaries of major EA philosophical works (incl. Doing Good Better and The Precipice). The challenge is finding qualified writers who have the time to spare for such a task. (I did it myself for Singer’s ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’.)*
But if anyone reading this is (i) either a graduate student in a top philosophy program or a professional philosopher (or can otherwise make a strong case for being qualified), and (ii) interested in writing a high-quality précis of such a book for utilitarianism.net, please get in touch! (I can offer a $1000 honorarium if I agree to commission your services.)
I created a bounty, funded by Superlinear, for summarizing books in Twitter threads.
Just out of curiosity: why restrict it to Twitter threads? (E.g. I can’t imagine a tweet-thread on Singer’s FAM being nearly as useful as my above study guide.)
I’m not sure what you’re asking. You’re welcome to refer to the utilitarianism.net honorarium (and academic qualification requirements) for commissioned articles, and encourage any interested parties to contact me with further questions.
(Or, if someone really wanted to try writing the article first, and then approach us to check whether we viewed it as of appropriate quality for us to publish, that would also be fine. But a bit of a risk on their part, since writing an academic article is a significant time investment, and there’s no guarantee we would accept it!)
super-linear.org is an EA aligned prize platform. We could put your honorarium there and then more people would see it. People would write entries and if they were good enough, be rewarded.
Strongly agreed!
I would love for utilitarianism.net to host high-quality summaries of major EA philosophical works (incl. Doing Good Better and The Precipice). The challenge is finding qualified writers who have the time to spare for such a task. (I did it myself for Singer’s ‘Famine, Affluence, and Morality’.)*
But if anyone reading this is (i) either a graduate student in a top philosophy program or a professional philosopher (or can otherwise make a strong case for being qualified), and (ii) interested in writing a high-quality précis of such a book for utilitarianism.net, please get in touch! (I can offer a $1000 honorarium if I agree to commission your services.)
Just out of curiosity: why restrict it to Twitter threads? (E.g. I can’t imagine a tweet-thread on Singer’s FAM being nearly as useful as my above study guide.)
* = folks who like that summary might also appreciate my summary of Parfit’s entire moral philosophy in seven blog posts.
Can I put your honorarium as a superlinear prize?
Twitter is something I understand. I don’t think summaries should be restricted to this.
I’m not sure what you’re asking. You’re welcome to refer to the utilitarianism.net honorarium (and academic qualification requirements) for commissioned articles, and encourage any interested parties to contact me with further questions.
(Or, if someone really wanted to try writing the article first, and then approach us to check whether we viewed it as of appropriate quality for us to publish, that would also be fine. But a bit of a risk on their part, since writing an academic article is a significant time investment, and there’s no guarantee we would accept it!)
super-linear.org is an EA aligned prize platform. We could put your honorarium there and then more people would see it. People would write entries and if they were good enough, be rewarded.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I’ll run this by my co-editors, and get back to you if they’re interested.