From speaking to PhD candidates in various fields “Zombie theories” seem like a pretty big problem. my understanding is that researchers in those fields know how to read between the lines of the research and downward estimate claims. So there is some amount of translation work that is happening. The problem is that fields that are very interdisciplinary it gets a bit complicated, since every researcher doesn’t have this ability for every field.
From a community building perspective, I wonder whether insights from posts like this could be distilled and shared with academic communities, and what kind of difference it would make. I imagine effective thesis could run workshops like this, or people working on metascience field building or something. Maybe even a new way of getting people interested in EA (presumably people who worry about things like this would be good fits for EA)
From speaking to PhD candidates in various fields “Zombie theories” seem like a pretty big problem. my understanding is that researchers in those fields know how to read between the lines of the research and downward estimate claims. So there is some amount of translation work that is happening. The problem is that fields that are very interdisciplinary it gets a bit complicated, since every researcher doesn’t have this ability for every field.
From a community building perspective, I wonder whether insights from posts like this could be distilled and shared with academic communities, and what kind of difference it would make. I imagine effective thesis could run workshops like this, or people working on metascience field building or something. Maybe even a new way of getting people interested in EA (presumably people who worry about things like this would be good fits for EA)
I haven’t read it yet, but the linked post “Gears level models are capital investments” looks very interesting