This seems like a good time to discuss Forum policy around posts about COVID-19.
I think that we should try to avoid about just posting general pandemic news when there’s nothing especially actionable about it. Reading this piece tells me something worrisome about the virus, but I can’t see how it’s meant to change my behavior, or pull me in the direction of supporting a policy I didn’t support already, etc.
Does this piece have any special relevance for the EA community that I might not be missing? You write “people familiar with EA ideas probably should not be disproportionately vulnerable to the outbreak,” but why would someone’s “EA ideas” make them more vulnerable in the first place?
This seems like a good time to discuss Forum policy around posts about COVID-19.
I think that we should try to avoid about just posting general pandemic news when there’s nothing especially actionable about it. Reading this piece tells me something worrisome about the virus, but I can’t see how it’s meant to change my behavior, or pull me in the direction of supporting a policy I didn’t support already, etc.
Does this piece have any special relevance for the EA community that I might not be missing? You write “people familiar with EA ideas probably should not be disproportionately vulnerable to the outbreak,” but why would someone’s “EA ideas” make them more vulnerable in the first place?