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#52 – Michael Aird on how to do Impact-Driven Research

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Is Wikipedia Editing Still a Very Valuable Use of Someone's Time?

Is Wikipedia editing still potentially a very valuable use of someone's time? When I was doing it it wasn't because it was a valuable use of my time. There is a way on Wikipedia you can see which pages you edited most and a lot of them are like pink or for me. A key thing I believe is if you're writing stuff anyway and it's relevant to effective altruism and it's not bad to publish either in general on the forum for information hazards or public relations type reasons. Then you really likely should take the tiny effort required on the forum or to take a take a moderate effort to write a version for the forum so if you've written a paper for a journal make

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