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Us­ing the “ex­ec­u­tive sum­mary” style: writ­ing that re­spects your reader’s time

deep22 Jul 2022 0:17 UTC
204 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Feed­back I’ve been giv­ing to ju­nior x-risk researchers

Will Aldred15 Aug 2022 20:46 UTC
145 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Your first posts will be cringe. It’s fine.

Coafos16 Aug 2022 2:20 UTC
46 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.facebook.com)

Why fun writ­ing can save lives: the case for it be­ing high im­pact to make EA writ­ing entertaining

Kat Woods11 Nov 2021 22:17 UTC
125 points
68 comments10 min readEA link

EA should taboo “EA should”

Lizka29 Mar 2022 9:07 UTC
210 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth21 Mar 2022 19:18 UTC
75 points
1 comment20 min readEA link

Edit­ing Ad­vice for EA Fo­rum Users

Justis22 Apr 2022 2:45 UTC
106 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Please tag your posts!

Emrik19 Aug 2022 10:05 UTC
37 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Get­ting Bet­ter at Writ­ing: Why and How

bgarfinkel17 Mar 2023 15:31 UTC
97 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

How to Write Read­able Posts

davidhartsough20 Oct 2022 7:48 UTC
24 points
6 comments7 min readEA link
(davidhartsough.com)

[SEE NEW EDITS] No, *You* Need to Write Clearer

Nicholas / Heather Kross29 Apr 2023 5:04 UTC
71 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

The value of con­tent density

Joey🔸20 Jul 2022 15:34 UTC
207 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Why defen­sive writ­ing is bad for com­mu­nity epistemics

Emrik8 Oct 2022 23:38 UTC
76 points
28 comments8 min readEA link

Pro­duc­tive crit­i­cism: what could help?

Lizka13 Jun 2023 14:56 UTC
38 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

No­body Wants to Read Your Sh*t: my fa­vorite book of writ­ing ad­vice, con­densed for your convenience

jvb15 Feb 2023 23:28 UTC
92 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Epistemic sta­tus: an ex­plainer and some thoughts

Lizka31 Aug 2022 13:59 UTC
59 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

The Broad Value of Copy­edit­ing as a Skill

Ben Williamson3 Dec 2024 3:49 UTC
17 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

A Fo­rum post can be short

Lizka22 Mar 2022 11:13 UTC
189 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

The writ­ing style here is bad

Michał Zabłocki15 Jan 2023 7:45 UTC
91 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

Niche vs. broad-ap­peal posts (& how this re­lates to use­ful­ness/​karma) (a sketch)

Lizka17 Dec 2022 18:11 UTC
34 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Re­source for crit­i­cisms and red teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC
61 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Ques­tions I ask my­self when mak­ing de­ci­sions (or com­mu­ni­cat­ing)

Catherine Low🔸23 Jan 2023 16:21 UTC
169 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Spread­ing mes­sages to help with the most im­por­tant century

Holden Karnofsky25 Jan 2023 20:35 UTC
128 points
21 comments18 min readEA link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC
226 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

Draft Amnesty Day: an event we might run on the Forum

Lizka31 Oct 2022 16:48 UTC
82 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

“EA” is too vague: let’s be more specific

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸14 Apr 2023 15:43 UTC
40 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Re­quest: feed­back on blog ar­ti­cle about body shaming

Ariel Pontes30 Jul 2022 14:08 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are EAs in­ter­ested in us­ing or con­sum­ing more di­a­grams or data vi­su­al­i­sa­tions?

Joseph Bloom25 Aug 2022 2:05 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Writ­ing can save lives and get you an EA job: a list of rea­sons to write more EA content

Kat Woods17 Dec 2022 19:07 UTC
17 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Distil­la­tion for Align­ment Practicum (DAP)

Jonas Hallgren18 Aug 2022 22:31 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Up­date on Book Re­view Dom­i­nant As­surance Contract

Arjun Panickssery3 Feb 2023 23:16 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Offer­ing: Edit­ing/​feed­back on writ­ten pieces

Holly K29 Jul 2022 21:09 UTC
38 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Toward a more ap­proach­able and ac­cessible EA Forum

davidhartsough21 Oct 2022 7:22 UTC
11 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

Ab­stracts, pa­pers and the per­ils of research

SofiiaF1 Jan 2025 23:21 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.blogger.com)

Not giv­ing up: early ca­reer papers

SofiiaF1 Jan 2025 23:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link
(sofiiabioblog.blogspot.com)

The EA fo­rum post-writ­ing al­gorithm (95% > 100 karma, n> 100)

One-time pad22 Jul 2022 16:42 UTC
29 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Quick PSA: Edit­ing and Re­view peer group for fo­rum posts

Arepo8 Feb 2024 4:24 UTC
40 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Red Team: Write More.

Weaver31 Aug 2022 17:57 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Be More Succinct

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 22:58 UTC
23 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sider pay­ing for liter­a­ture or book re­views us­ing boun­ties and dom­i­nant as­surance contracts

Arjun Panickssery15 Jan 2023 4:50 UTC
40 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

LW4EA: Epistemic Legibility

Jeremy16 Aug 2022 15:55 UTC
5 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

How to Do a PhD (in AI Safety)

Lewis Hammond5 Jan 2025 16:57 UTC
22 points
2 comments18 min readEA link
(lewishammond.com)

Ter­minol­ogy sug­ges­tion: stan­dard­ize terms for prob­a­bil­ity ranges

Egg Syntax30 Aug 2024 16:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Seek­ing Tan­gible Ex­am­ples of AI Catastrophes

clifford.banes25 Nov 2024 7:55 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Job Post Template

Yonatan Cale18 Dec 2022 18:11 UTC
39 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC
434 points
197 comments31 min readEA link

Some com­ments on re­cent FTX-re­lated events

Holden Karnofsky10 Nov 2022 22:23 UTC
644 points
79 comments4 min readEA link

How to Pub­lish a Pro-An­i­mal Op-Ed—Talk Highlights

Noa Weiss28 Aug 2024 22:41 UTC
10 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
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