Exactly the right avenue. Unfortunately, Anki typically uses its own idiosyncratic data format that’s not very handy for this kind of thing, but it’s possible to export and import decks to text, as it turns out.
The issue with this is that if you’re months into studying a deck and you’d like to merge edits from other contributors, I’m not certain that you simultaneously import the edits and keep all of your progress.
Even so, the text deck route has the most promise as far as I can tell.
I totally agree. Shared decks encourage a lot of SRS vices.
But, given that they exist and that people are going to use them, is there a way to raise the quality of a shared deck significantly above the average? You can page through the shared decks on Anki’s shared decks page and dredge up extremely low quality. If you look at the repository of decks by LW users, the average quality is much better, but could still be improved.
I propose that the MIRI courses are valuable, and that people learning them could benefit from Anki decks. I think the best way to make these Anki decks is a wiki-style collaborative effort.