This seems very useful! Thank you for the summaries. Some thoughts:
having this available as a podcast (read by a human) would be cool
at one point you hinted at happenings in the comments (regarding GiveWell), this generally seems like a good idea. Maybe in select cases it would make sense to also summarize on a very high level what discussions are going on beneath a post.
this sentence is confusing to me: “Due to this, he concludes the cause area is one of the most important LT problems and primarily advises focusing on other risks due to neglectedness.”—is it missing a “not”?
given this post has >40 upvotes now, I’m looking forward to reading the summary of it next week :)
having this available as a podcast (read by a human) would be cool
That would be awesome—I don’t have time to make one myself, but if anyone else wants to take the post and make it into something like that feel free.
this sentence is confusing to me: “Due to this, he concludes the cause area is one of the most important LT problems and primarily advises focusing on other risks due to neglectedness.”—is it missing a “not”?
Good point—I’ve re-read the conclusion and changed that line to be a bit clearer. It now reads: “Due to this, he concludes that climate change is still an important LT area—though not as important as some other global catastrophic risks (eg. biorisk), which outsize on both neglectedness and scale.”
This seems very useful! Thank you for the summaries. Some thoughts:
having this available as a podcast (read by a human) would be cool
at one point you hinted at happenings in the comments (regarding GiveWell), this generally seems like a good idea. Maybe in select cases it would make sense to also summarize on a very high level what discussions are going on beneath a post.
this sentence is confusing to me: “Due to this, he concludes the cause area is one of the most important LT problems and primarily advises focusing on other risks due to neglectedness.”—is it missing a “not”?
given this post has >40 upvotes now, I’m looking forward to reading the summary of it next week :)
SUMMARY-CEPTION!!!!
Thanks for the feedback!
That would be awesome—I don’t have time to make one myself, but if anyone else wants to take the post and make it into something like that feel free.
Good point—I’ve re-read the conclusion and changed that line to be a bit clearer. It now reads: “Due to this, he concludes that climate change is still an important LT area—though not as important as some other global catastrophic risks (eg. biorisk), which outsize on both neglectedness and scale.”