I don’t really understand the model. Which variable represents the counterfactual value of reading these materials at all? (Also it’s confusing that there are no units, even if that’s almost always true for programming).
I support your idea that many EA (and relevant non-EA) materials are really long and need to be summarised to be impactful. But for most of the materials you listed, I don’t think it makes a difference if they’re read at all (my bias is that out of all of them the only one I’ve read is half of the Precipice). I find EA ideas, books and articles to be very repetitive, and for each of them I strongly suspect almost all information can be much more easily gotten by other means.
The two exceptions I see to this are non-EA materials, like the summaries on Econ or feminism that you suggest (which I’d happily read); and the Sequences, for which I’d also happily try to read a summary if it was significantly less verbose than the original, but which I suspect are not important for EA.
In regard to them model, thanks for the feedback. It’s quite early days for me making them and I could explain them better.
Reading your comment suggests you’d like some syntheses. I agree. Many EA works are similar, but they do impart a small part of their own value. So why can’t we turn them all into one summary page which links to perhaps 10 pages of summaries.
I don’t really understand the model. Which variable represents the counterfactual value of reading these materials at all? (Also it’s confusing that there are no units, even if that’s almost always true for programming).
I support your idea that many EA (and relevant non-EA) materials are really long and need to be summarised to be impactful. But for most of the materials you listed, I don’t think it makes a difference if they’re read at all (my bias is that out of all of them the only one I’ve read is half of the Precipice). I find EA ideas, books and articles to be very repetitive, and for each of them I strongly suspect almost all information can be much more easily gotten by other means.
The two exceptions I see to this are non-EA materials, like the summaries on Econ or feminism that you suggest (which I’d happily read); and the Sequences, for which I’d also happily try to read a summary if it was significantly less verbose than the original, but which I suspect are not important for EA.
In regard to them model, thanks for the feedback. It’s quite early days for me making them and I could explain them better.
Reading your comment suggests you’d like some syntheses. I agree. Many EA works are similar, but they do impart a small part of their own value. So why can’t we turn them all into one summary page which links to perhaps 10 pages of summaries.