Writing advice

TagLast edit: 5 Oct 2022 13:22 UTC by Lizka

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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

146 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

Editing Advice for EA Forum Users

Justis22 Apr 2022 2:45 UTC

110 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

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

Coafos16 Aug 2022 2:20 UTC

49 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.facebook.com)

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth21 Mar 2022 19:18 UTC

79 points

1 comment20 min readEA link

EA should taboo “EA should”

Lizka29 Mar 2022 9:07 UTC

211 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

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

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️11 Nov 2021 22:17 UTC

130 points

68 comments10 min readEA link

Getting Better at Writing: Why and How

bmg17 Mar 2023 15:31 UTC

97 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

Please tag your posts!

Emrik19 Aug 2022 10:05 UTC

38 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Nicholas Kross29 Apr 2023 5:04 UTC

71 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

How to Write Readable Posts

davidhartsough20 Oct 2022 7:48 UTC

24 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

(davidhartsough.com)

The value of content density

Joey🔸20 Jul 2022 15:34 UTC

207 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

Productive criticism: what could help?

Lizka13 Jun 2023 14:56 UTC

38 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Why defensive writing is bad for community epistemics

Emrik8 Oct 2022 23:38 UTC

76 points

28 comments8 min readEA link

Epistemic status: an explainer and some thoughts

Lizka31 Aug 2022 13:59 UTC

70 points

2 comments6 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

93 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

Spreading messages to help with the most important century

Holden Karnofsky25 Jan 2023 20:35 UTC

129 points

21 comments18 min readEA link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Announcing the Distillation for Alignment Practicum (DAP)

Jonas Hallgren 🔸18 Aug 2022 22:31 UTC

20 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Winners of the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC

227 points

42 comments19 min readEA link

The writing style here is bad

Michał Zabłocki15 Jan 2023 7:45 UTC

91 points

28 comments1 min readEA link

A Forum post can be short

Lizka22 Mar 2022 11:13 UTC

199 points

27 comments1 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

41 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

The Broad Value of Copyediting as a Skill

Ben Williamson3 Dec 2024 3:49 UTC

19 points

1 comment4 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 Woods 🔶 ⏸️17 Dec 2022 19:07 UTC

18 points

3 comments6 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

Questions I ask myself when making decisions (or communicating)

Catherine Low🔸23 Jan 2023 16:21 UTC

170 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

Frank Feedback Given To Very Junior Researchers

NunoSempere1 Sep 2021 10:55 UTC

158 points

23 comments5 min readEA link

Resource for criticisms and red teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC

65 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Be More Succinct

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 22:58 UTC

24 points

3 comments1 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

Red Team: Write More.

Weaver31 Aug 2022 17:57 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Global vs. local feedback

MaxDalton13 Oct 2025 10:32 UTC

54 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(custodienda.substack.com)

[Question] Seeking Tangible Examples of AI Catastrophes

clifford.banes25 Nov 2024 7:55 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

How to Do a PhD (in AI Safety)

Lewis Hammond5 Jan 2025 16:57 UTC

23 points

2 comments18 min readEA link

(lewishammond.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

How to write a living literature review: Finding papers, coming up with ideas, writing and publishing

FJehn23 Apr 2025 8:10 UTC

13 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Quick PSA: Editing and Review peer group for forum posts

Arepo8 Feb 2024 4:24 UTC

40 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

443 points

197 comments31 min readEA link

LW4EA: Epistemic Legibility

Jeremy16 Aug 2022 15:55 UTC

5 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Some comments on recent FTX-related events

Holden Karnofsky10 Nov 2022 22:23 UTC

644 points

80 comments4 min readEA link

Lessons from My First Month on Substack

Mónica Ulloa14 Aug 2025 1:15 UTC

22 points

0 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)

Highly Opinionated Advice on How to Write ML Papers

Neel Nanda12 May 2025 1:59 UTC

22 points

0 comments32 min readEA link

How We Learned to Write Better Research Papers

Connor Wood10 Apr 2025 14:25 UTC

−2 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Job Post Template

Yonatan Cale18 Dec 2022 18:11 UTC

39 points

5 comments9 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

PSA: EA Forum Feedback Service

Justis15 May 2025 20:14 UTC

45 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Terminology suggestion: standardize terms for probability ranges

Egg Syntax30 Aug 2024 16:05 UTC

2 points

0 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

[Question] Does anyone have a good system for prioritising publishing drafts?

Will Howard🔹6 Jun 2025 16:55 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Linkpost: Redwood Research reading list

Julian Stastny10 Jul 2025 19:21 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(redwoodresearch.substack.com)

Offering: Editing/feedback on written pieces

Holly K29 Jul 2022 21:09 UTC

38 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Make Your Opportunity Shareable: Include Versions for Different Platforms

Erik Jentzen17 Apr 2025 6:12 UTC

24 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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