The point about active rather than passive learning, even just for learningās sake rather than producing original work, is a good one. But I think there are many more ways to do that than writing literature reviews.
One way that seems especially time efficient is making Anki cards (as I suggest in this post), since that can be done quickly in little gaps while doing chores etc.
Another is writing up ākey updatesā from a thing one has readānot just copying key passages, but saying how the ideas in the book have changed oneās beliefs or plans. This is something Iām now trying out, and an example can be seen here.
Another way would be writing relatively low-effort commentaries, criticism, analysis, original thoughts, etc. as EA Forum posts, without doing proper literature reviews.
So maybe we can imagine a dimension from very active to very passive learning, and another dimension for how much non-background time is required, and weād like people to find activities that hit the best tradeoffs on those two dimensions for the various parts of their day/āweek.
But I agree that podcasts and non-fiction books can be more entertaining and not as cognitively demand especially when you have some time to while doing chores etc.
These are indeed the main benefits of podcasts for me, but one other benefit is that they sometimes contain ideas that havenāt yet been properly written up anywhere. (That obviously doesnāt apply to non-fiction books.)
Another way would be writing relatively low-effort commentaries, criticism, analysis, original thoughts, etc. as EA Forum posts, without doing proper literature reviews.
I agree that active learning and writing doesnāt have to be a literature review-and all these formats actually also work. Perhaps weāre coming full circle and it does actually connect to the point in the other thread: we need to encourage people to write more commentaries.
The point about active rather than passive learning, even just for learningās sake rather than producing original work, is a good one. But I think there are many more ways to do that than writing literature reviews.
One way that seems especially time efficient is making Anki cards (as I suggest in this post), since that can be done quickly in little gaps while doing chores etc.
Another is writing up ākey updatesā from a thing one has readānot just copying key passages, but saying how the ideas in the book have changed oneās beliefs or plans. This is something Iām now trying out, and an example can be seen here.
Another way would be writing relatively low-effort commentaries, criticism, analysis, original thoughts, etc. as EA Forum posts, without doing proper literature reviews.
So maybe we can imagine a dimension from very active to very passive learning, and another dimension for how much non-background time is required, and weād like people to find activities that hit the best tradeoffs on those two dimensions for the various parts of their day/āweek.
These are indeed the main benefits of podcasts for me, but one other benefit is that they sometimes contain ideas that havenāt yet been properly written up anywhere. (That obviously doesnāt apply to non-fiction books.)
I agree that active learning and writing doesnāt have to be a literature review-and all these formats actually also work. Perhaps weāre coming full circle and it does actually connect to the point in the other thread: we need to encourage people to write more commentaries.