There’s a joke that whatever the question is in Bible Study, the correct answer is always ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, or ‘The Bible’. I think it would be bad if the EA equivalent to that became ‘AI’, ‘Existential risk’ and ‘Randomised controlled trials’ .
On the other hand, discussion relies on people having a shared pool of information, and I think it’s very easy to overestimate how much common information people share. I’ve found in group discussions it’s common that someone who’s not an regular to the discussions will bring a whole set of talking points, articles, authors, ideas etc that I had no idea even existed till then. Which is great, except I don’t know what to say in response except ‘uh, what was the name of that? I’ll have to read into it’ .
There’s a joke that whatever the question is in Bible Study, the correct answer is always ‘God’, ‘Jesus’, or ‘The Bible’. I think it would be bad if the EA equivalent to that became ‘AI’, ‘Existential risk’ and ‘Randomised controlled trials’ .
On the other hand, discussion relies on people having a shared pool of information, and I think it’s very easy to overestimate how much common information people share. I’ve found in group discussions it’s common that someone who’s not an regular to the discussions will bring a whole set of talking points, articles, authors, ideas etc that I had no idea even existed till then. Which is great, except I don’t know what to say in response except ‘uh, what was the name of that? I’ll have to read into it’ .