I think there’s a lot of great literature that’s relevant for EA purposes. Sometimes specific phrases can act as useful keywords.
If we use similar language as other academic fields, then:
Other groups can understand Effective Altruist writing easier.
Effective Altruists can more easily search for existing literature and discussion.
I’ve recently been doing some surveying of different fields and finding a lot of terminology I think is both (1) not currently used by many people here, and (2) would be interesting to them.
This can be as simple as an interesting Wikipedia page. I think there are tons of interesting Wikipedia pages I don’t yet know to search, but would get a lot value out of if I did.
When submitting, if it’s not obvious, I suggest adding information about why this could be interesting to other EAs.
[Question] What are words, phrases, or topics that you think most EAs don’t know about but should?
I think there’s a lot of great literature that’s relevant for EA purposes. Sometimes specific phrases can act as useful keywords.
If we use similar language as other academic fields, then:
Other groups can understand Effective Altruist writing easier.
Effective Altruists can more easily search for existing literature and discussion.
I’ve recently been doing some surveying of different fields and finding a lot of terminology I think is both (1) not currently used by many people here, and (2) would be interesting to them.
This can be as simple as an interesting Wikipedia page. I think there are tons of interesting Wikipedia pages I don’t yet know to search, but would get a lot value out of if I did.
When submitting, if it’s not obvious, I suggest adding information about why this could be interesting to other EAs.