I find these questions and consideration really interesting, and I could see myself experiment with researching questions of this sort for 3 months. As a relatively junior person though who may end up doing this independently, I worry about none of the thinking/writing I’d do on one of these topics actually changing anything. Do you have any advice on making this type of research useful?
I’ll hopefully soon make a follow-up post with somewhat more concrete projects that I think could be good. That might be helpful.
Are you more concerned that research won’t have any important implications for anyone’s actions, or that the people whose decisions ought to change as a result won’t care about the research?
Thank you for posting this!
I find these questions and consideration really interesting, and I could see myself experiment with researching questions of this sort for 3 months. As a relatively junior person though who may end up doing this independently, I worry about none of the thinking/writing I’d do on one of these topics actually changing anything. Do you have any advice on making this type of research useful?
I’ll hopefully soon make a follow-up post with somewhat more concrete projects that I think could be good. That might be helpful.
Are you more concerned that research won’t have any important implications for anyone’s actions, or that the people whose decisions ought to change as a result won’t care about the research?