Are you sure that gathering and condensing existing material is the highest value action the community could take? The main alternative would be to improve it. Is CEV still an extant idea? No one seems to know. Can Bayes and Solomonoff Induction be used the way LessWrong says? The experts think not.
“the community” consists of many individuals with different availability and talents. It’s extremely believable that there are a lot of people who can write (and edit/curate) summaries who would be less effective at improving or extending the material.
Are you sure that gathering and condensing existing material is the highest value action the community could take? The main alternative would be to improve it. Is CEV still an extant idea? No one seems to know. Can Bayes and Solomonoff Induction be used the way LessWrong says? The experts think not.
“the community” consists of many individuals with different availability and talents. It’s extremely believable that there are a lot of people who can write (and edit/curate) summaries who would be less effective at improving or extending the material.
Writing summaries can help to make the existing claims more clear.
Developing the most important ideas would fall under ‘rationalist research’.