Propose and vote on potential EA Wiki entries

Political Polarisation

I already made this tag, but maybe it should be removed.

Arguments against its existence: 

• Not currently a very commonly discussed topic in EA
• Arguably related to the tag Policy Change
• Maybe there's some other tag that would do a better job covering this and related matters. Super rough ideas: Cultural Forces; Culture, Politics, & Norms; Institutions & Norms

Arguments for its existence:

• Some EAs seem quite interested in this
• Interest may be increasing: There were 3 posts on the topic just this year, which each got decent to large amounts of attention
• There may also be a lot of interest in this on LessWrong? If so, this may ultimately spill over to more interest here?
• My shortform collection of posts on the topic got 17 karma

UPDATE: I've proposed the change to the tag.

Proposal: Change the EA Global tag to EA Conferences.

Since many of the tagged posts are relevant to EA Student Summit, EAGx's etc. and the description itself is conference posts. 

Now vs Later, or Optimal Timing, or Optimal Timing for Altruists, or some other name.

This would be intended to capture posts relevant to the debate over "giving now vs later" and "patient vs urgent longtermism", as well as related debates like whether to do direct work now vs build career capital vs movement-build, and how much to give/work now vs later, and when to give/work if not now ("later" is a very large category!). 

This tag would overlap with Hinge of History, but seems meaningfully distinct from that.

Not sure what the best name would be. 

Heavy tailed distributions of cost-effectiveness, or some variant thereof, would probably be good. I seem to recall there was such an entry on the old EA Concepts page.

Some examples of pages that would get this tag:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FXaCnPMiw3jWrnkho/cost-effectiveness-distributions-power-laws-and-scale
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ntLmCbHE2XKhfbzaX/how-much-does-performance-differ-between-people
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/54QW6uBjWXJzR7c4E/log-normal-lamentations

Biosurveillance

A central pillar for biodefense against GCBRs and an increasingly feasible intervention with several EAs working on it and potentially cool projects emerging in the near future. Possibly too granular as a tag since there's not a high volume of biosecurity posts which would warrant the granular distinction. But perhaps valuable from a Wiki standpoint with a definition and a few references. I can create an entry, if the mods are okay with it.

Example posts:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/NzqaiopAJuJ37tpJz/project-ideas-in-biosecurity-for-eas

Related: GCBR, Biosecurity

Update: I've now made this entry.

Surveillance

Some relevant posts:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xoxbDsKGvHpkGfw9R/problem-areas-beyond-80-000-hours-current-priorities#Surveillance
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XtNgkrnFnedx92iN3/ben-garfinkel-the-future-of-surveillance
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xt7pKYWyvC5Ng4TpS/surveillance-and-free-expression-or-sunyshore

I'm surprised that "cost-effectiveness evaluation" doesn't exist yet.

Some others that it's weird enough that they don't exist yet: "meta-charities", "advocacy", "pandemic preparedness".

A couple of tags that would apply to all of my posts: "aging research", "scientific research".

(Update: I've now made this tag.)

Operations

Arguments against

• Maybe overlaps somewhat with Org Strategy, EA Hiring, and Entrepreneurship
• Maybe not very many posts on the forum that are especially related to operations in particular

Arguments for:

• I'd guess there are at least 5 relevant posts
  • Some posts with the above-mentioned tags might be relevant
• I'd guess there'll be more relevant posts in future
• I'd guess at least a few EA forum users would appreciate seeing a collection of posts on this

I like Lists, so get me a List of Lists for my tag List.

There are a number of good posts that are basically lists of links to different articles (like this one). It would be nice to be able to easily access them.

When tags were introduced, the post said to "submit new tag ideas to us using this form." I made a bunch of suggestions (don't remember what they were) and probably some other people did too. Could someone who has access to results of that form paste all those suggestions here?

Independent impressions or something like that

We already have Discussion norms and Epistemic deference, so I think there's probably no real need for this as a tag. But I think a wiki entry outlining the concept could be good. The content could be closely based on my post of the same name and/or the things linked to at the bottom of that post.

Retreat or Retreats

I think there are a fair few EA Forum posts about why and how to run retreats (e.g., for community building, for remote orgs, or for increasing coordination among various orgs working in a given area). And I think there are a fair few people who'd find it useful to have these posts collected in one place.

Red teaming or red teams or red team or something like that

Examples of posts that would get this tag:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/obHA95otPtDNSD6MD/idea-red-teaming-fellowships
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8RcFQPiza2rvicNqw/minimal-trust-investigations 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/myp9Y9qJnpEEWhJF9/shortform?commentId=hedmemCCrb4jkviAd if it was a top-level post or if we could tag shortforms
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oHcRQsiDM9D76aENu/a-red-team-against-the-impact-of-small-donations 

Uncertainties:

• Should this just cover posts that explicitly discuss things like red-teaming (whether or not they also actually do red-team something), or also posts that are solely examples of red-teaming (without explicit discuss of that)?
  • I think probably the former? 
    • That's mainly because otherwise I think the boundaries might be too fuzzy and/or the list of posts tagged might be too long and unfocused. But I could be wrong about that.
• Should this just include posts on things like red-teaming EAs' ideas, or also posts on red-teaming in other contexts (e.g., in governments or as a way of improving decisions in general)?
  • I moderately confidently think the latter

Related entries

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/epistemic-spot-check https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/conservation-of-expected-evidence https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/community-epistemic-health 

ETA: Now created

Corporate governance

Example of a relevant post: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5MZpxbJJ5pkEBpAAR/the-case-for-long-term-corporate-governance-of-ai

I've mostly thought about this in relation to AI governance, but I think it's also important for space governance and presumably various other EA issues. 

I haven't thought hard about whether this really warrants an entry, nor scanned for related entries - just throwing an idea out there.

United Kingdom policy & politics (or something like that)

This would be akin to the entry/tag on United States politics. An example of a post it'd cover is https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yKoYqxYxo8ZnaFcwh/risks-from-the-uk-s-planned-increase-in-nuclear-warheads 

But I wrote on the United States politics entry's discussion page a few months ago:

I suggest changing the name and scope to "United States government and politics". E.g., I think there should be a place to put posts about what actions the US government plans to take or can take, how it's thinking, how to influence that, how useful that is, etc. And it seems like this entry's name wouldn't currently naturally cover that, but I think this entry should cover that, suggesting the name should be broadened.

And I'd say similar here, hence the proposal to say "policy & politics" rather than just "politics". (I know some people favour entry names being single categories rather than "and"s, but I think often the most natural cluster for a tag is better pointed at via more than one term.)

Career profiles (or maybe something like "job posts"?)

Basically, writeups of specific jobs people have, and how to get those jobs. Seems like a useful subset of the "Career Choice" tag to cover posts like "How I got an entry-level role in Congress", and all the posts that people will (hopefully) write in response to this.

Update: I've now made this entry.

Consultancy (or maybe Consulting or Consultants or Consultancies)

Things this would cover:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CwFyTacABbWuzdYwB/ea-needs-consultancies
• Other posts relevant to the idea of EAs acting as consultants to other EAs
  • E.g., this shortform of mine and maybe some links provided in it would warrant this tag if they were top-level Forum posts
• Posts about pros and cons of EAs doing non-EA consultancy work (e.g. management consultancy), tips for doing that, etc.
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RQSZCJCMnop48zwCb/learnings-from-scaling-the-effective-altruism-and-consulting
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Kcft6apx5zgNWXFYh/ama-ian-david-moss-strategy-consultant-to-foundations-and

Related entries

career choice | Effective Altruism and Consulting Network | org strategy | working at EA vs. non-EA orgs

(maybe there are also other good choices for related entries)

Effective Altruism on Facebook and Effective Altruism on Twitter (and more - maybe Goodreads, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc). Alternatively Effective Altruism on Social Media, though I probably prefer tags/entries on particular platforms.

A few relevant articles:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8knJCrJwC7TbhkQbi/ea-twitter-job-bots-and-more

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6aQtRkkq5CgYAYrsd/ea-twitterbot

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mvLgZiPWo4JJrBAvW/longtermism-twitter

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BtptBcXWmjZBfdo9n/ea-facebook-group-greatest-hits-top-50-posts-by-total

Multiple articles about Giving Tuesday.

Also, quite a lot of EA discussion is and has taken place on Twitter and Facebook; there are many EA Facebook groups, etc. Therefore, it  seems natural to have entries on EA Twitter and EA Facebook.

Maybe we should have an entry for each discipline/field that's fairly relevant to EA and fairly well-represented on the Forum? Like how we already have history, economics, law, and psychology research. Some other disciplines/fields (or clusters of disciplines/fields) that could be added:

• political science
• humanities
  • I think humanities disciplines/fields tend to be somewhat less EA-relevant than e.g. economics, but it could be worth having one entry for this whole cluster of disciplines/fields
• social science
  • But (unlike with humanities) it's probably better to have entries for each particularly relevant field within this broad cluster

Maybe we should have a tag for each individual EA Fund, in addition to the existing tag Effective Altruism Funds tag? The latter could then be for posts relevant to EA Funds as a whole.

There are now 60 posts with the Effective Altruism Funds tag, and many readers may only be interested in posts relevant to one or two of the funds.

Markets for Altruism or Market Mechanisms for Altruism or Impact Certificates or Impact Purchases (or some other name)

Tentatively proposed description: 

The Markets for Altruism tag is for posts relevant to actual or potential market-like mechanisms for altruistic or charitable activities. An example would be certificates of impact. 

See also EA Funding.

The posts listed here would fit this tag. Some other posts tagged EA Funding might fit as well.

I'm unsure precisely what the ideal scope and name of this tag would be. 

I think it wouldbe useful to be able to see all the posts from a particular organisation all at once on the forum. For the most part, individuals from those organisations post, rather than a single organisation account it can be difficult to see e.g. all of Rethink Priorities' research on a given topic

Curious to hear if people think it's better to have tags or sequences for group these posts?

I've added a Meta-Science tag. I'd love for some help with clarifying the distinction between it and Scientific Progress.  

Generally, I imagine meta-science as being more focused on specific aspects of the academic ecosystem and scientific progress to be related more to the general properties of scientific advances. There is clearly an overlap there, but I'm not sure where exactly to set the boundaries. 

Would be good if tags always had descriptions/definitions of the things they're for.

Update: I've now made this tag.

[Something about war, armed conflict, or great power conflict]

Arguments against:

• Arguably a subset of International Relations.
• Also overlaps with some tags like Nuclear Weapons and Existential Risk.

Arguments for:

• Arguably a very important subset of International Relations, which might warrant a tag of its own.
• Arguably not entirely a subset of International Relations, as things like civil/intrastate armed conflicts could also be important. (But maybe any EA Forum post that covers that would in practice also cover other International Relations things.)

Megaprojects

Would want to have a decent definition. I feel like the term is currently being used in a slippery / under-defined / unnecessary-jargon way, but also that there's some value in it. 

Example posts: 

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/faezoENQwSTyw9iop/ea-megaprojects-continued
• things linked to from there

Related entries:

Constraints on effective altruism

Scalably using labour

David Pearce (the tag will be removed if others think it’s not warranted)

Arguments against:

• One may see David Pearce much more related to transhumanism (even if to the most altruistic “school” of transhumanism) than to EA (see e.g. Pablo’s comment).
• Some of Pearce’s ideas goes against certain established notions in EA: e.g. he thinks sentience of classical digital computers is impossible under the known laws of physics, that minimising suffering should take priority over increasing happiness of the already well-off, that environmental interventions alone, w/o raising individuals’ hedonic setpoints and making these individuals invincible to severe suffering, cannot solve the problem of suffering and achieve sustainable high wellbeing for all.

I also should mention that I’m biased in proposing this tag, as Pearce’s work played a major role in my becoming an EA.

Arguments for:

• For over 25 years David Pearce has been researching and writing about addressing the root cause of suffering on the planet using bio/nano/info/robo technology.
• Pearce has been raising awareness about, and proposing solutions for, wild-animal suffering at least since 1995.
• Several relatively prominent EAs cite Pearce’s work as having major influence on their values, including Brain Tomasik, the Qualia Research Institute’s Andrés Gómez Emilsson, and the Center for Reducing Suffering’s Magnus Vinding. Another recognition of Pearce’s work is his being invited as a speaker for EA Global: Melbourne 2015.
• Unlike most other transhumanists, Pearce is antispeciesist and advocates using technology to benefit all sentient life.

Academia or something like that

This could cover things like how (in)efficient academia is, what influences it has had and could have, the best ways to leverage or direct academia, whether people should go into academic or academia-related careers, etc.

E.g., Open Phil's post(s) on field-building and this post on How to PhD.

Related entries

field-building | meta-science | research methods | research training programs | scientific progress

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It's possible that this is made redundant by other tags we already have? 

And my current suggested name and scope are vague and just spitballing. 

Terrorism

Update: I've now made this tag.

Charitable pledges or Altruistic pledges or Giving pledges (but that could be confused with the Giving Pledge specifically) or Donation pledges or similar

Maybe the first two names are good in that they could capture pledges about resources other than money (e.g., time)? But I can't off the top of my head think of any non-monetary altruistic pledges. 

This could serve as an entry on this important-seeming topic in general, and as a directory to a bunch of other entries or orgs on specific pledges (e.g., Giving Pledge, GWWC Pledge, Generation Pledge, Founders Pledge).

See also this post: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/W2f7AZEe2kCoZhwrf/a-list-of-ea-donation-pledges-gwwc-etc 

What do you think about a tag for posts that include Elicit predictions? I'd like to see all posts that include them and it might be a tiny further reminder to use them more.

Quadratic voting or Uncommon voting methods or Approval voting or something like that or multiple of these

E.g., this post could get the first and/or second tag, and posts about CES could get the second and/or third tag

Alignment tax

Here I'm more interested in the Wiki entry than the tag, though the tag is probably also useful. Basically I primarily want a good go-to link that is solely focused on this and gives a clear definition and maybe some discussion.

This is probably an even better fit for LW or the Alignment Forum, but they don't seem to have it. We could make a version here anyway, and then we could copy it there or someone from those sites could.

Here are some posts that have relevant content, from a very quick search:

• https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/paul-christiano-current-work-in-ai-alignment/#:~:text=I%20like%20this%20notion%20of,%5Bthe%20systems%5D%20to%20do. (this seems to be the standard go-to at the moment, but it's a long post where this is only one part, and having an encylopedic rather than conversational style of writing could be helpful)
  • Also on the Forum: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/63stBTw3WAW6k45dY/paul-christiano-current-work-in-ai-alignment 
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9et86yPRk6RinJNt3/an-95-a-framework-for-thinking-about-how-to-make-ai-go-well
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HEZgGBZTpT4Bov7nH/mapping-the-conceptual-territory-in-ai-existential-safety#Alignment_tax_and_alignable_algorithms 
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oBpebs5j5ngs3EXr5/a-summary-of-anthropic-s-first-paper-3#Alignment_Tax 
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yhb5BNksWcESezp7p/poll-which-variables-are-most-strategically-relevant 
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dktT3BiinsBZLw96h/linkpost-a-general-language-assistant-as-a-laboratory-for 
• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/oBpebs5j5ngs3EXr5/a-summary-of-anthropic-s-first-paper-3#Alignment_Tax
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ayu5im98u8FeMWoBZ/my-personal-cruxes-for-working-on-ai-safety 

Related entries:

• differential progress
• AI alignment
• AI forecasting
• AI governance
• Maybe Corporate governance, if that entry is made

The term "safety tax" should probably also be mentioned

Brain-computer interfaces

See also the LW wiki entry / tag, which should be linked to from the Forum entry if we make one: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/brain-computer-interfaces

Relevant posts:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qfDeCGxBTFhJANAWm/a-new-x-risk-factor-brain-computer-interfaces-1 
• (Maybe there are more - didn't look hard.)

Time-money tradeoffs or Buying time or something like that

For posts like https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/g86DhzTNQmzo3nhLE/what-are-your-favourite-ways-to-buy-time and maybe a bunch of other posts tagged Personal development

Criticism of the EA community

For posts about what the EA community is like, as opposed to the core ideas of EA themselves. Currently, these posts get filed under Criticism of effective altruism even though it doesn't quite fit.

Arms race or Technology race or Arms/technology race something like that

Related entries

AI governance | AI forecasting | armed conflict | existential risk | nuclear warfare | Russell-Einstein Manifesto

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I think such an entry/tag would be at least somewhat attention hazardous, so I'm genuinely unsure whether it's worth creating it. Though I think it'd also have some benefits, the cat is somewhat out of the bag attention-hazard-wise (at least among EAs, who are presumably the main readers of this site), and LessWrong have apparently opted for such a tag (focused solely and explicitly on AI, so a bit more attention hazardous in my view).

Survey or Surveys

For posts that: 

1. discuss results from surveys,
2. promote surveys, and/or
3. discussing pros and cons and best practices for using surveys in general and maybe for specific EA-relevant areas (e.g., how much can we learn about technology timelines from surveys on that topic? how best can we collect and interpret that info?). 

I care more about the first and third of those things, but it seems like in practice the tag would be used for the second. I guess we could discourage that, but it doesn't seem important.

"Survey" seems more appropriate for the first and second of those things, while "Surveys" seems more appropriate for the third.

Coaching or Coaching & therapy or something like that

Basically I think it'd be useful to have a way to collect all posts relevant to coaching and/or therapy as ways to increase people's lifetime impact - so as meta interventions/cause areas, rather than as candidates for the best way to directly improve global wellbeing (or whatever). So this would include things like Lynette Bye's work but exclude things like Canopie.

In my experience, it tends to make sense to think of coaching and therapy together in this context, as many people offer both services, the boundaries between these concepts/services seem fuzzy, and many of the relevant considerations seem similar. But it could make sense to have two tags.

Examples of posts that would be covered by a tag covering coaching:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/DwiJBvnjxjptQePSs/coaching-reduce-struggle-and-develop-talent
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/axxX5DekQcY9HNkHe/coaching-an-under-appreciated-strategy-among-effective
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6BXrSZGayibJjR9uc/long-term-future-fund-november-2019-short-grant-writeups#Damon_Pourtahmaseb_Sasi___40_000_
• Most/all posts tagged https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/effective-altruism-coaching
• Probably many (but not most) posts tagged https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/personal-development, effective altruism lifestyle, self-care, or https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/management-and-mentoring
• Probably some posts tagged https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/career-advising
• Probably https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CwFyTacABbWuzdYwB/ea-needs-consultancies

Examples of posts that would be covered by a tag covering therapy:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6BXrSZGayibJjR9uc/long-term-future-fund-november-2019-short-grant-writeups#Damon_Pourtahmaseb_Sasi___40_000_
• Probably many (but not most) posts tagged effective altruism lifestyle, self-care, or  https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/personal-development

Management/mentoring, or just one of those terms, or People management, or something like that

This tag could be applied to many posts currently tagged Org strategy, Scalably using labour, Operations, research training programs, Constraints in effective altruism, WANBAM, and effective altruism hiring. But this topic seems sufficiently distinct from those topics and sufficiently important to warrant its own entry.

We've now redirected almost all of EA Concepts to Wiki entries. A few of the remaining concepts (e.g. "beliefs") don't seem like good wiki entries here, so we won't touch them.

However, there are a couple of entries I think could be good tags, or good additions to existing tags:

1. Charity recommendations
2. Focus area recommendations

It seems good to have wiki entries that contain links to a bunch of lists of charity and/or focus area recommendations. Maybe these are worked into tags like "Donation Choice"/"Donation Writeup", or maybe they're separate.

(Wherever the entries end up, they should probably link to GWWC's donation advice page, which is the most thorough I know of.)

Adjacent communities or something like that is a potential entry/tag (though not very high priority).

Some posts on that theme:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XHHwTu2PCr9CGpLpa/what-is-the-closest-thing-you-know-to-ea-that-isn-t-ea

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zA9Hr2xb7HszjtmMx/name-for-the-larger-ea-adjacent-ecosystem 

Update: I've now made this entry.

Requests for proposals or something like that

To cover posts like https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EEtTQkFKRwLniXkQm/open-philanthropy-is-seeking-proposals-for-outreach-projects 

This would be analogous to the Job listings tags, and sort of the inverse of the Funding requests tag.

This overlaps in some ways with Get involved and Requests (open), but seems like a sufficiently distinct thing that might be sufficiently useful to collect in one place that it's worth having a tag for this.

This could also be an entry that discusses pros, cons, and best practices for Requests for proposals. Related entries include Grantmaking and EA funding. 

Update: I've now made this entry.

Defense in depth

Relevant links/tags:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mvdKkvtfFv4Sa7ufZ/cotton-barratt-daniel-and-sandberg-defence-in-depth-against
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/M2SBwctwC6vBqAmZW/a-personal-take-on-longtermist-ai-governance
  • See especially footnote 19
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/emvBqtzYYRQwGrazx/the-web-of-prevention

Seems like a useful concept for risk analysis and mitigating in general.

Update: I've now made this entry.

Semiconductors or Microchips or Integrated circuit or something like that

The main way this is relevant to EA is as a subset of AI governance / AI risk issues, which could push against having an entry just for this.

That said, my understanding is that a bunch of well-informed people see this as a fairly key variable for forecasting AI risks and intervening to reduce those risks, to the point where I'd say an entry seems warranted.

Meta: perhaps this entry should be renamed 'Propose and vote on potential entries' or 'Propose and vote on potential tags/Wiki articles'? We generally use the catch-all term 'entries' for what may be described as either a tag or a Wiki article.

Update: I've now made this entry

career advising or career advice or career coaching or something like that

We already have career choice. But that's very broad. It seems like it could be useful to have an entry with the more focused scope of things like:

• How useful do various forms of career advising tend to be?
• What are best practices for career advising?
• What orgs work in that space?
  • E.g., 80k, Animal Advocacy Careers, Probably Good, presumably some others
• How can one test fit for or build career capital in career advising?

This would be analogous to how we have an entry for donation choice but also entries for grantmaking, intervention evaluation, and charity evaluation.

Charter cities or special economic zones or whatever the best catchall term for those things + seasteading is

From a quick search for "charter cities" on the Forum, I think there aren't many relevant posts, but there are:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EpaSZWQkAy9apupoD/intervention-report-charter-cities 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9422BL5mDTzWBdPs4/link-the-case-for-charter-cities-within-the-ea-framework-cci
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/j63K34P9hermM4bfN/why-do-we-need-philanthropy-can-we-make-it-obsolete
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ds8BXE7stuWgA3Go7/the-future-of-earning-to-give 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YivqwF4zNCTRSfk73/rachel-glennerster-fireside-chat-2018 (literally just two sentences, though)

Maybe there are other posts that would come up for "special economic zones" or "seasteading".

Maybe this is too niche a topic to warrant its own entry, given that we already have entries like global health and development and economic growth?

Update: I've now made this entry

Charity evaluation or (probably less good) Charity evaluator

We already have an entries donation choice, intervention evaluation, and cause prioritisation. But charity evaluation is a major component of donation choice for which we lack an entry. This entry could also cover things about charity evaluation orgs like GiveWell, e.g. how useful a role they serve, what the best practices for them are, and whether there should be one for evaluating longtermist charities or AI charities or whatever.

Downside of this name: Really it might be better to speak of "funding opportunity evaluation" or "project evaluation", to capture things that aren't precisely charities. But "charity evaluation" seems like the standard term for this sort of thing, and the entry could just mention that those nearby things also exist and that things about them could get this tag too.

Update: I've now made this entry.

Effective altruism outreach in schools or High school outreach or something like that

Overlaps with https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/effective-altruism-education , but that entry is broader, and it seems like now there's a decent amount of activity or discussion about high school outreach specifically. E.g.:

• Parts of this EAIF report, and presumably future stuff that comes from some of those grants
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HcaB2kJKhxJtS4oGc/some-thoughts-on-ea-outreach-to-high-schoolers
• A slack workspace for people involved in such things

Barriers to effective giving or Psychology of (in)effective giving or something like that

Bibliography

Why aren’t people donating more effectively? | Stefan Schubert | EA Global: San Francisco 2018

EA Efficacy and Community Norms with Stefan Schubert [see description for why this is relevant]

[Maybe some other Stefan Schubert stuff]

[Probably some stuff by Lucius Caviola, David Reinstein, and others]

Related entries

cognitive bias | cost-effectiveness | donation choice | diminishing returns | effective giving | market efficiency of philanthropy | rationality | scope neglect | speciesism | temporal discounting

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Relevant posts:

• Some Infrastructure Fund / Meta Fund payout reports
• Probably other stuff

Our World in Data

Some posts where this tag would be particularly relevant:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZuTZSau76f4wAGT7C/should-i-give-to-our-world-in-data
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6dsrwxHtCgYfJNptp/the-world-is-much-better-the-world-is-awful-the-world-can-be 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/2n8eCkaLkCE5RMiXN/ea-meta-fund-november-2019-payout-report#_3__Our_World_in_Data____30k 

But from a quick search, it seems like at least 20 posts mention Our World in Data somewhere, and presumably some of them also say enough about it to warrant a tag.

Some orgs it might be worth making entries about:

• Nonprofits that were incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship 
  • (I think some already have entries, but not all)
• Swiss Existential Risk Initiative (CHERI)
  • https://effectivealtruism.ch/swiss-existential-risk-initiative
  • Related entries: Stanford Existential Risk Initiative, Simon Institute for Longterm Governance

Epistemic challenge, or The epistemic challenge, or Epistemic challenges, or any of those but with "to longtermism" added

Relevant posts include the following, and presumably many more:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/FhjDSijdWrhFMgZrb/the-epistemic-challenge-to-longtermism-tarsney-2020
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/z2DkdXgPitqf98AvY/formalising-the-washing-out-hypothesis
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jBmLrYJJh4kydhpcD/the-case-for-strong-longtermism

Related entries

• cluelessness
• longtermism
• expected value
• forecasting

I think there should either be an entry for each of Accident risk, Misuse risk, and Structural risk, or a single entry that covers all three, or something like that.

Maybe these entries should just focus on AI, since that's where the terms were originally used (as far as I'm aware). On the other hand, I think the same concepts also make sense for other large-scale risks from technologies.

If the entries do focus on AI, maybe they should have AI in the name (e.g. AI accident risk or Accident risk from AI), or maybe not.

In this case, the reason I'm posting this here rather than just making it is that I'm not sure exactly what form this entry or set of entries should take; I'm quite confident that something like this should exist.

I think the first place these terms were all used may have been this post: https://www.lawfareblog.com/thinking-about-risks-ai-accidents-misuse-and-structure

They're also used here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/42reWndoTEhFqu6T8/ai-governance-opportunity-and-theory-of-impact 

EA vs Non-EA Orgs

Proposed tag description:

The EA vs Non-EA Orgs tag is for posts that include arguments for or against pursuing jobs at organisations that explicitly identify with the "effective altruism" label, relative to jobs at other organisations. The tag is also for posts that include discussion of whether and why members of the EA community may be biased in one direction or the other on this question, and how to address that (e.g., how to raise the status - within the EA community - of high-impact work at non-EA orgs). 

This tag is not intended for posts that discuss things like how the effectiveness of EA orgs tends to differ from that of non-EA orgs, except when those posts connect this to the question of where EAs should work.

See also Career Choice, EA Hiring, Criticism (EA Orgs), Criticism (EA Movement). [I'll add the links if I actually make this tag; I'm just being lazy]

Alternative tag names: 

• EA vs Non-EA Organisations
• EA and Non-EA Orgs
• Explicitly EA Careers vs Other Careers
• Explicitly EA vs Other Careers
• Other ideas?

Some posts that would fit this tag:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vHPR95Gnsa3Gkgjof/consider-a-wider-range-of-jobs-paths-and-problems-if-you
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jmbP9rwXncfa32seH/after-one-year-of-applying-for-ea-jobs-it-is-really-really
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Lms9WjQawfqERwjBS/the-career-and-the-community
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yAFXfuwsebEhNgLTf/getting-people-excited-about-more-ea-careers-a-new-community 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vMpuXz2zqS8iHya7i/ea-jobs-provide-scarce-non-monetary-goods 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mPMg9aL3HwGQ3ghK9/eas-working-at-non-ea-organizations-what-do-you-do 
• Maybe https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CkYq5vRaJqPkpfQEt/a-framework-for-thinking-about-the-ea-labor-market-1 
• Maybe https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EP6X362Q3ziibA99e/show-a-framework-for-shaping-your-talent-for-direct-work
• Maybe https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YHyvjYSEQtp3nfd6c/thoughts-on-80-000-hours-research-that-might-help-with-job 
• Maybe some posts tagged Criticism (EA Orgs), or under the other Criticism tags

Scalably Using People or Scalably Using Labour or Task Y or something like that

Proposed description:

There are often discussions of how good or bad EA is at efficiently allocating many people to valuable work, the consequences of EA's strengths or weaknesses on that front, how to improve, and how this all might change as EA grows. 

See also Career Choice, Get Involved, Movement Strategy, Community Tools, Criticism (EA Movement), EA Hiring, and Markets for Altruism. 

Notes on that description:

• I'll obviously add the links to the "See also" tags if I actually make the tag; I'm just being lazy here
• Not sure all those "See also" tags are relevant enough to mention
• That description is assuming the name is something like Scalably Using People.
  • Task Y is a somewhat different concept, and it's less immediately obvious how the term links to the concept, so the description would need to be different.

Posts that would warrant this tag include:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uWWsiBdnHXcpr7kWm/can-the-ea-community-copy-teach-for-america-looking-for-task
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HBKb3Y5mvb69PRHvP/dealing-with-network-constraints-my-model-of-ea-careers 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oNY76m8DDWFiLo7nH/what-to-do-with-people 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/G2Pfpkcwv3bJNF8o9/ea-is-vetting-constrained 
• Many of the posts that link to that post (see the "pingbacks" at the end of the post)
• A sequence of small posts I'm working on
• I think a bunch of other stuff on the Forum too

Industrial Revolution

We already have a variety of related tags, like History, Economic Growth, and Persistence of Political/Cultural Variables. But the Industrial Revolution does seem like perhaps the single most notable episode of history for many/all EA cause areas, so maybe we should have a tag just for it?

Some posts that would warrant the tag:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7QiXR2dv8KL4fkf9D/notes-on-henrich-s-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-2020
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TMCWXTayji7gvRK9p/is-democracy-a-fad
• Maybe https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XXLf6FmWujkxna3E6/are-we-living-at-the-most-influential-time-in-history-1 

Cultural Evolution

One relevant post: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7QiXR2dv8KL4fkf9D/notes-on-henrich-s-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world-2020

I haven't searched my memory or the Forum for other relevant posts yet.

This would overlap somewhat with the tags for Memetics and Persistence of Political/Cultural Variables.

Update: I've now made this tag.

Persistence of Political/Cultural Variables (or Cultural Persistence, or Cultural, Political, and Moral Persistence, or something like that)

First pass at a description: 

It's often important to have a sense of the persistence of political/cultural variables - such as democracy, authoritarianism, concern for human rights, a concern for animal welfare, or norms conducive to scientific progress or free markets. This can inform our predictions of what the future will be like and our views on the importance of changing those variables.

See also cluelessness, hinge of history, memetics, value drift (which focuses on individuals rather than societies), and academic work on cultural persistence (e.g. Giuliano and Nunn, 2016; but see also Kelly, 2019).

Posts that would warrant this tag include:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TMCWXTayji7gvRK9p/is-democracy-a-fad
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/usL8XErNqDxwoNQj8/long-term-influence-and-movement-growth-two-historical-case
• Probably many others; I haven't scanned my memory for relevant posts yet

One consideration I just thought of, which I do not recall seeing mentioned elsewhere, is that the optional number of tags depends somewhat on the typical tag use case.

• Clicking on an article's tags to find other related articles
  • As only a small % of tags apply to any given article, and this % will fall as the number of tags increases, article tag spaces will not become too 'busy'. 
  • Hence there should be many tags, so that each article can be tagged as usefully as possible.
• Clicking on the tag list to find a specific topic
  • There are already so many tags it is hard to find the one you want.
  • This is especially an issue because any given concept often has multiple associated words, so you can't always cntrl-f.

Update: I've now made this tag.

Fellowships or EA-Aligned Fellowships or Research Fellowships or something like that

Stefan Schubert writes:

It could be good if someone wrote an overview of the growing number of fellowships and scholarships in EA (and maybe also other forms of professional EA work). It could include the kind of info given above, and maybe draw inspiration from Larks' overviews of the AI Alignment landscape. I don't think I have seen anything quite like that, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe this would be partially addressed via a tag for posts about these things. I imagine that could be useful for people who are considering running or participating in such a fellowship, or people who definitely will and want to get some insights into how best to do so.

I think the sort of thing that'd obviously be covered are the Summer Research Fellowships offered by FHI and CLR, and the Early Career Conference Programme offered by GPI. 

I'm not sure whether this tag should also include: 

• longer things that are still training-ish (e.g., FHI's 2 year Research Scholars Program)
• non-research internships at EA orgs
• research fellowships at non-EA (but potentially impactful) orgs
• the fellowships some EA university groups run

I'm therefore also not sure what the ideal name and description would be.

(Update: I've now made this tag.)

Institutions for Future Generations

This is arguably a subset of Institutional Decision-Making and/or Policy Change. It also overlaps with Longtermism (Philosophy) and Moral Advocacy / Values Spreading. But it seems like this is an important category that various people might want to learn about in particular (i.e., not just as part of learning about institutional decision-making more broadly), and like there are many EA Forum posts about this in particular.

(Update: I've now made this tag.)

China (or maybe something broader like BRICS or Rising Powers)

Rough proposed description:

The China tag is for posts that are about China, that address how China is relevant to various issues EAs care about, or that are relevant to how one could have an impact by engaging with China.

See also Global Outreach and International Relations.

It seems perhaps odd to single China out for a tag while not having tags for e.g. USA, Southeast Asia, ASEAN, United Nations, Middle Powers. But we do have a tag for posts relevant to the European Union. And China does seem like a particularly important topic, and one that it makes sense to have a specific tag for. And maybe we should indeed have tags for United Nations and Middle Powers.

I'd be interested in thoughts on whether BRICS, Rising Powers, or something else would be a better label/scope for this tag than China.

Update: I've created the tag "Discussion Norms"

Community Norms/Discussion Norms

Very Bad Description: Posts that discuss norms on how EAs to interact with each other. 

Posts this tag could apply to: 

• Robert Wiblin, Six Ways To Get Along With People Who Are Totally Wrong*
• Jess Whittlestone, Supportive Scepticism
• Michelle Hutchinson and Jess Whittlestone, Supportive Scepticism in Practice
• Owen Cotton-Barratt, Keeping the Effective Altruism movement welcoming
• The extraordinary value of ordinary norms by Emily Tench
• Me, Suggestions for Online EA Discussion Norms
• Considering Considerateness: Why communities of do-gooders should be exceptionally considerate by Stefan Schubert

Issues with existing tags: 

• Cooperation & Coordination - this seems more high-level or strategic like donor coordination. But I'm quite uncertain - it could be include disucsion norms. I think there's probably value for a separate tag though, because this is the kind of thing group organisers would find useful and could be quickly shared with people.
• Community - applies but is too broad, so doesn't help identify these posts
• Movement Strategy - also too broad
• Diversity & Inclusion - too narrow - not all community norms are about D&I
• EA Messaging - too narrow - sometimes relevant when disucssing how you might talk to non-EAs in an EA setting (e.g. a newcomer at an event)
   

Anyone have thoughts on this tag? I'm skeptical, but might be more inclined if I saw more applications that were good. Also if it had a description that described it's naturalness as a category in the EA-sphere. (If this were a business forum it would obviously be good, and maybe it is in this Forum — I'm not sure.)

Do we need both Longtermism (Philosophy) and Long-Term Future?

(Update: I've now made this tag.)

Cooperation & Coordination or [just one of those terms] or Moral Trade

(I think I lean towards the first option and away from Moral Trade.)

Proposed description: 

The Cooperation & Coordination tag is for posts about whether, when, and how people - especially effective altruists and others aiming to do good - should cooperate and coordinate. Such posts will often draw on ideas related to game theory, moral trade, moral uncertainty, and how to think about and measure counterfactual impact. 

See also Movement Strategy, Moral Advocacy / Values Spreading, and Epistemic Humility.

Some posts this would cover:

• Effective Altruism and Free Riding
• Common ground for longtermists
• Various things which have the other tags mentioned above
• Some of the sorts of things the Center on Long-Term Risk and 80,000 Hours have written previously, though I'm not sure how many of those specific things are on the forum

Arguments against this:

• Too broad?
  • Maybe it just sounds that way, and a different name and/or description would fix that?
• Well covered by the other tags mentioned above?
  • I don't think so, really
• Not enough forum posts this is relevant too?
  • Even if that's true, I expect there will be more in future, or that we should just fix that by making link posts to CLR and 80k posts

Alternative idea:

• A tag for Game Theory?
  • But that feels like a less natural category for the forum for me

Maybe some of the existing tags related to politics & policy should be deleted, and a tag for Politics & Policy should replace them?

Some relevant tags that might be on the chopping block: Improving Institutional Decision-Making, Policy Change, Political Polarisation,  International Relations, Direct Democracy, and Global Governance.

I think I'm moderately against this idea, as I think the sub-topics are large/important enough to warrant their own tags, even if there's a lot of overlap. But I thought I'd throw this idea out there anyway. 

(Update: I've now made this tag.)

Improving Institutional Decision-Making (or similar)

Argument against:

• Arguably overlaps somewhat with the existing tags Forecasting, Policy Change, Political Polarisation, International Relations, Direct Democracy, and European Union
• It might make more sense to instead change the name and description of Policy Change so it more clearly covers improving institutional decision-making as well

Arguments for:

• Seems substantially distinct from any of the above tags, including Policy Change
• A major topic in EA (e.g., one of 80k's main problem areas, has a large FB group)
• There are already 64 posts tagged Policy Change, and I'd guess >20 posts could warrant the tag Improving Institutional Decision-Making. So I think even if the topics overlapped quite a bit (which I'm not sure they do), they could each warrant a tag due to being big enough that the non-overlapping part is quite big.

The post that prompted this, because it's clearly relevant to IIDM but doesn't seem very relevant to Policy Change: Should We Prioritize Long-Term Existential Risk?

(Update: I've now made this tag, with the name Epistemic Humility and a description noting it can be about other, broadly related things as well.)

Social Epistemology & Epistemic Humility or [just one of those terms] or [some other label]

Some posts that might fit this tag:

• In defence of epistemic modesty
• Some thoughts on deference and inside-view models
• EA reading list: cluelessness and epistemic modesty
• "Good judgement" and its components
• Maybe some other posts tagged Rationality

Global priorities research and macrostrategy.

I wanted to use these tags when asking this question, but they don't seem to exist.

There is a tag on cause prioritization. But I think it'd be more useful if that tag was focused on content that is directly relevant for prioritizing between causes, e.g. "here is why I think cause A is more tractable than cause B" or "here's a framework for assessing the neglectedness of a cause". Some global priorities or macrostrategy research has this property, but not all of it. E.g. I think it'd be a bit of a stretch to apply the cause prioritization label to this (amazing!) post on Quantifying anthropic effects on the Fermi paradox.

(Update: I've now made this tag.)

Moral Uncertainty

Argument against:

• Arguably a subset of Moral Philosophy
• Overlaps with Meta-Ethics

Argument for:

• Arguably an important subset of Moral Philosophy
• I'd estimate there's at least 10 posts on the topic

I noticed there's no Consciousness tag, so I was going to create one, but then I saw the Sentience tag. Perhaps that should be renamed "Sentience / Consciousness", and/or its description should be tweaked to mention consciousness?

(I'm putting this here so it can be up- or down-voted to inform whether this change should be made. I think the tag pages will later have the equivalent of Wikipedia's "Talk" pages, at which point I'd put comments like this there instead.) 

(Update: This got 2 upvotes, and continues to seem to me like a good idea, so I updated the name and description of this tag accordingly.)

I've edited this post to include our official mandate at the top. Thanks for creating it, MichaelA!

[Any 80,000 problem areas and career paths - or the additional problem areas and career ideas they mention - that are not directly covered by existing tags]

I haven't yet looked through these problem areas and career paths/ideas with this in mind, to see what's not covered by existing tags and what the arguments for and against creating new tags for these things would be. 

(Feel free to comment yourself with specific tag ideas drawn from the 80k problem areas and career paths, or the additional ones they mention.)

(Update: I've now created this tag.)

Meta-Ethics

Argument against: This is arguably a subset of the tag Moral Philosophy.

Arguments for: This seems like an important subset, which there are several Forum posts about, and which some people might appreciate a specific tag about (e.g., if they're beginning to grapple with meta-ethics and are less focused on moral philosophy as a whole right now).

Some posts this should include:

• All posts in the sequence commencing with this one: Moral Anti-Realism Sequence #1: What Is Moral Realism?
• Morality vs related concepts
• Maybe Hi, I'm Luke Muehlhauser. AMA about Open Philanthropy's new report on consciousness and moral patienthood (due to some comments there and some parts of the report)
• Maybe a bunch of stuff on AI alignment, cause prioritisation, and/or moral uncertainty?
• Maybe Principia Qualia: blueprint for a new cause area, consciousness research with an eye toward ethics and x-risk

It might be worth going through the Effective Altruism Hub's resource collections and the old attempts to build EA Wikis (e.g., the Cause Prioritization wiki), to:

• See if that inspires useful new entries/tags
  • E.g., they might cover some topic that we then realise is worth having an entry for
• Find resources that can be given a relevant tag, or listed in Bibliography / Further reading / External links sections

I assume some of this has been done already, but someone doing it thoroughly seems worthwhile.

Mind uploads, or Whole brain emulation, or maybe Digital minds

I think that:

• These concepts overlap somewhat with artificial sentience
• But these concepts (or at least mind uploads and WBE) are also meaningfully distinct from artificial sentience

But I could be wrong about either of those things.

Further reading

Age of Em

https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/brain-emulation-roadmap-report.pdf

Related entries

artificial sentience | consciousness research | intelligence and neuroscience | long-term future | moral patienthood | non-humans and the long-term future | number of future people

Non-longtermist arguments for GCR reduction, or Non-longtermist arguments for prioritising x-risks, or similar but with "reasons" instead of arguments, or some other name like that

The main arguments I have in mind are the non-longtermist 4 of the 5 arguments Toby Ord mentions in The Precipice, focusing on the past, the present, civilizational virtues, and cosmic significance.

Ideally, the entry would cover both (a) such arguments and (b) reasons why those arguments might be much weaker than the longtermist arguments and thus might not by themselves justify placing a strong focus on GCR/x-risk reduction (at least if reducing such risks seems much less tractable or neglected than other things).

Examples of posts that this would cover:

• The person-affecting value of existential risk reduction
• Link-posts to Precipice-focused talks by Ord
• Some posts by ALLFED, e.g. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XA8QSCL7wZ973i6vr/agi-safety-and-losing-electricity-industry-resilience-cost 

I'm not sure whether the label should focus on GCRs or x-risks. I think the present- and civilizational-virtue-focused arguments apply to GCR reduction, but the past- and cosmic-significance-focused arguments probably don't.

Longtermism (Cause Area)

We have various tags relevant to longtermism or specific things that longtermists are often interested in (e.g., Existential Risk). But we don't have a tag for longtermism as a whole. Longtermism (Philosophy) and Long-Term Future don't fit that bill; the former is just for "posts about philosophical matters relevant to longtermism", and the latter is "meant for discussion of what the long-term future might actually look like".

One example of a post that's relevant to longtermism as a cause area but that doesn't seem to neatly fit in any of the existing longtermism-related tags is Should marginal longtermist donations support fundamental or intervention research? An analogous post that was focused on global health & dev or mental health could be given the tags that cover those cause areas, and one focused on animal welfare could be given the Farm Animal Welfare and Wild Animal Welfare tags (which seem to me to together fill the role of a tag for that whole cause area).

Change My View!

I found r/ChangeMyView recently and I think it's the bee's knees. "A place to post an opinion you accept may be flawed, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue."

There are already a good deal of questions and posts inviting criticism on this forum, and this tag could organize them all for the people who enjoy a good, clean disagreement/discussion. It could be used especially (or only) for ideas with <50% certainty.

The subreddit itself is a cool place to go, but many issues are more fruitfully discussed among fellow EAs, or would just work better on the EA Forum.

I'm happy to learn if Change My View is actually not a good format for discussion - I just found out about it, so no harm done.

(Update: I've now made this tag.)

Law

Some posts this could cover:

• Introducing the Legal Priorities Project
• Various posts tagged International Relations, Global Governance, AI Governance (e.g., posts by GovAI and/or Cullen O'Keefe), Policy Change, Improving Institutional Decision-Making, or European Union

Arguments for:

• I have a sense it could be useful to have a tag for each major field/discipline that many EAs are from and/or that is relevant to many EA areas.
  • The key reason is that this could maybe help people find posts relevant to their backgrounds, and think about ways they can use their backgrounds to advance EA causes.
  • I think Law would qualify here
  • I think this is the same reason why there are Facebook groups for the intersections of EA and various disciplines
    • And there is indeed a decently sized (153 people) FB group for Effective Altruism & Law
• There's already a tag for History, EA Psychology, EA Philosophy, and probably a few other areas
  • And somewhat analogously, Operations, Entrepreneurship, and Earning to Give
  • I also suggested a tag for Economics but haven't made it yet.
• I expect there are at least 10 highly relevant posts, and that they could be readily found by going through the tags mentioned above

Arguments against:

• Overlaps with the tags mentioned above

Economics

The Economics tag would be for posts focusing on topics in the domain of economics, making particularly heavy use of concepts or tools from economics, or highlighting ways for people with economics backgrounds to do good.

Some posts that would fit:

• An introduction to global priorities research for economists
• Posts with the Economic Growth tag
• Maybe some posts wth the Global Health and Development and Statistical Methods tags
• Probably a lot of other posts, but not merely any post that uses terms like "externalities" - hence "particularly heavy use of concepts or tools from economics"

Arguments against this tag:

• Overlaps/subsumes with Economic Growth
• Overlaps a bit with Global Health and Development and maybe Statistical Methods
• Maybe too broad a category, as economics concepts and tools are used at least a bit in a lot of EA stuff
• Maybe it wouldn't make sense to have this tag without having a tag for each of a large array of other fields/professions (e.g., Biology)
  • But maybe we should have a tag for each of a large array of other fields/professions? 
  • And we already have tags for some, e.g. EA Psychology

Arguments for:

• I imagine it could be nice for someone with an economics background to have an easily accessible collection of posts that are especially relevant to their background and that highlight ways for them to contribute
• Analogy to the History tag, the Economics of Doing Good (Effective Altruism) Facebook group, the History and Effective Altruism Facebook group, and various other groups

How about a tag for global governance and/or providing global public goods? This is arguably one of the most pressing problems there is, because many of the problems EA works on are global coordination problems, including existential risk (since existential security is a global public good).

Please separate global development from global health.

Global health is one part of global development, which can include political, economic and humanitarian interventions. I write on politics in developing countries, but I'm probably the only one on the forum so I don't need my own tag.

Cluelessness

Arguments against:

• Perhaps somewhat niche?
• My current independent impression is that cluelessness, or some of the ideas or implications that people associate with it, is a confused and not especially useful idea, and that we shouldn't really worry about it
  • (I definitely think we're very uncertain about a lot of things and should take that very seriously, but that doesn't require the term "cluelessness")
  • (See also)

Arguments for:

• Many smart longtermist and/or philosophically minded EAs seem to think cluelessness is a really important idea, and I think some non-EA philosophers write about the idea as well. The outside view says there's a good chance that they're right and I'm wrong.
• In any case, given that many people talk and think about cluelessness, it might be useful to make it easier for people to find posts about the idea, and then ideally those posts would help their beliefs converge on the truth (which may or may not be that the concept isn't useful).

Something like Crisis response 

Posts that would get this tag:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/iW7LjvuSmDEGF5nei/ea-resilience-to-catastrophes-and-allfed-s-case-study
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zjMeGcgWpvDcm3CkH/why-short-range-forecasting-can-be-useful-for-longtermism#Variant_2__Combination_with_a_crisis_response_unit
• I think some posts in https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/s/dr4yccYeH6Zs7J82s

Update: Someone else seemingly independently created a tag with basically the same scope: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/emergency-response-teams/ 

READI Research

https://www.readiresearch.org/ 

My guess is that this org/collective/group doesn't (yet) meet the EA Wiki's implicit notability or number-of-posts-that-would-be-tagged standards, but I'm not confident about that. 

Here are some posts that would be given this tag if the tag was worth making:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RhkbNcA729QiZPm5W/phd-scholarships-for-ea-projects-in-psychology-health-iidm 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LSbpgFbhRtsfaBDrL/announcing-and-seeking-feedback-on-the-readi-philanthropy 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Sy7swEetrtcK2C7q6/research-summary-a-meta-review-of-interventions-that 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WTpwDW8dHWzfiaumx/review-what-works-to-promote-charitable-donations 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bZKLYFrDp7gvMjfYc/emily-grundy-australians-perceptions-of-global-catastrophic 
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pwnvva4AHfxYZmaGM/ea-infrastructure-fund-may-august-2021-grant-recommendations 
• maybe https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MxXQ2bbL6KPrHDPtz/intervention-options-for-improving-the-ea-aligned-research 

Tags for some local groups / university groups

I'd guess it would in theory be worth having tags for EA Cambridge and maybe some other uni/local groups like EA Oxford or Stanford EA. I have in mind groups that are especially "notable" in terms of level and impact of their activities and whether their activities are distinct/novel and potentially worth replicating. E.g., EA Cambridge's seminar programs seem to me like an innovation other groups should perhaps consider adopting a version of, and with more confidence they seem like a good example of a certain kind of innovative thinking in local group organising. 

But I think it would probably be bad if this opened the floodgates to huge numbers of tags for local/uni groups. 

So I'm not sure if the best move is to have no such tags, use our best but somewhat "conservative"/"deletionist" judgement on which such tags to create, or try to come up with criteria that are more objective than my comments above and then follow that. 

(Also note that I'm no expert on local/university EA groups, my comments above are tentative, and my knowledge of which groups are doing which seemingly cool things is somewhat haphazardly arrived at.)

EDIT:

• There's a tag for EA Israel
• There was previous somewhat relevant discussion here and here

Diplomacy

Might overlap too much with things like international relations and international organizations?

Would partly be about diplomacy as a career path.

Open society

The ideal of an open society - a society with high levels of democracy and openness - is related to many EA causes and policy goals. For example, open societies are associated with long-run economic growth, and an open society is conducive to the "long reflection." This tag could host discussion about the value of open societies, the meaning of openness, and how to protect and expand open societies.

Update: I've now made this entry.

Alternative foods or resilient foods or something like that

A paragraph explaining what I mean (from Baum et al., 2016):

nuclear war, volcanic eruptions, and asteroid impact events can block sunlight, causing abrupt global cooling. In extreme but entirely possible cases, these events could make agriculture infeasible worldwide for several years, creating a food supply catastrophe of historic proportions. This paper describes alternative foods that use non-solar energy inputs as a solution for these catastrophes. For example, trees can be used to grow mushrooms; natural gas can feed certain edible bacteria. Alternative foods are already in production today, but would need to be dramatically scaled up to become the primary food source during a global food supply catastrophe

This is what ALLFED focus on, but other research or implementation work has been done on this topic separately from ALLFED (e.g.), and I currently think the topic is sufficiently plausibly important to get its own entry+tag rather than just being seen as just "that thing ALLFED does". 

Considerations regarding what to call this:

• Alternative foods is the typical name, but sounds like it could mean alternative proteins or a bunch of other things
• Apparently ALLFED are going to rebrand this as resilient foods, which does seem much clearer to me
  • But the fact that this term is currently not the standard term is a mark against it

I now feel that a number of unresolved issues related to the Wiki ultimately derive from the fact that tags and encyclopedia articles should not both be created in accordance with the same criterion. Specifically, it seems to me that a topic that is suitable for a tag is sometimes too specific to be a suitable topic for an article.

I wonder if this problem could be solved, or at least reduced, by allowing article section headings to also serve as tags. I think this would probably be most helpful for articles that cover particular disciplines, such as psychology or computer science. Here it seems that it makes most sense to have a single article covering each discipline, yet multiple tags discussing different aspects of the discipline, such as research on that discipline, careers in that discipline, or applications of that discipline. Currently we take a hybrid approach, sometimes having entries for the discipline as a whole and sometimes for specific aspects of it.

Another advantage of allowing article sections to be used as tags is that some tags are currently associated with a very large number of posts. This suggests that a more fine-grained taxonomy of tags would organize the contents of Forum better, and allow users to find the material they want more easily.

A complication is that not all section headings will be suitable for tags. This issue could be solved in various ways. For example, the search field that opens when the user clicks on 'Add tag' could by default  only show the tags corresponding to article titles, just as it does currently. However, the user could be given the choice of expanding the tag to display the corresponding headings, and allow them to select among any of these. Perhaps headings already selected as tags by previous users could be shown by default in future searches.

I'm not particularly confident that this is a good idea. But it does seem like something at least worth discussing further.

I am considering turning a bunch of relevant lists into Wiki entries. Wikipedia allows for lists of this sort (see e.g. the list of utilitarians) and some (e.g. Julia Wise) have remarked that they find lists quite useful. The idea occurred to me after a friend suggested a few courses I may want to add to my list of effective altruism syllabi. It now seems to me that the Wiki might be a better place to collect this sort of information than some random blog. Thoughts?

Something like regulation

Intended to capture discussion of the Brussels effect, the California effect, and other ways regulation could be used for or affect things EAs care about.

Would overlap substantially with the entries on policy change and the European Union, as well as some other entries, but could perhaps be worth having anyway.

Update: I've now made this entry.

software engineering

Some relevant posts:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ChXZ2SZGaAzRqLM6D/ama-jp-addison-and-sam-deere-on-software-engineering-at-cea
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bud2ssJLQ33pSemKH/my-current-impressions-on-career-choice-for-longtermists#Software_engineering_aptitude
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Ejfaog2t72szuMFrp/conversation-on-forecasting-with-vaniver-and-ozzie-gooen#Importance_of_software_engineering_vs__other_kinds_of_infrastructure_

Related entries

artificial intelligence | public interest technology | SparkWave

[Though I think there was a discussion about how often we should include org tags in Related entries, and I can't remember what was said, so maybe SparkWave should be excluded.]

Vetting constraints

Maybe this wouldn't add sufficient value to be worth having, given that we already have scalably using labour and talent vs. funding constraints.

Intelligence assessment or Intelligence (military and strategy) or Intelligence agencies or Intelligence community or Intelligence or something

I don't really like any of those specific names. The first is what Wikipedia uses, but sounds 100% like it means IQ tests and similar. The second is my attempt to put a disambiguation in the name itself. The third and and fourth are both too narrow, really - I'd want the entry to not just be about the agencies or community but also about the type of activity they undertake. The fifth is clearly even more ambiguous than the first, but is also the term that's most commonly used, I think - it's usually just clear from context, which doesn't work as well for an entry/tag.

(Edit: I've now made this entry.)

Independent research

Proposed text:

Independent research is research conducted by an individual who is not employed by any organisation or institution, or who is employed but is conducting this research separately from that. This person may or may not have funding for this research (e.g., via grants). Research that is done by two or more people collaborating, but still separate from an organisation or institution, could arguably be considered independent research.

There are various advantages and disadvantages of independent research relative to research conducted as part of an organisation or institution. [Ideally someone will in future edit the text to say more about what those pros and cons actually are.]

This tag is intended for posts relevant to things like tips for doing independent research or advantages and disadvantages of independent research, not just for posts that are examples of independent research.

Related entries

EA funding | org strategy | research methods | research training programs | scalably using labour 

Uncertainties about that text:

• Should collaborative research definitely (rather than arguably) count as independent research? Should it definitely not count?
• Should research conducted by people who are employed, but with the research being separate from their employment, count?
  • I think clearly yes if they're e.g. employed as a bank clerk but doing AI safety research in their free time.
  • Not sure for e.g. the research I do that's not exactly Rethink Priorities or FHI research, but that one or both orgs are still happy exists.

Examples of posts that would warrant this tag:

• Various LTFF payout reports

Edit: I've now made this entry.

Longtermist Entrepreneurship Fellowship

I think this is only mentioned in three Forum posts so far[1], and I'm not sure how many (if any) would be added in future. 

It's also mentioned in this short Open Phil page: https://www.openphilanthropy.org/giving/grants/centre-effective-altruism-jade-leung

I'm also not sure if the name is fully settled - different links seem to use different names, or to not even use a capitalised name.

[1] https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/diZWNmLRgcbuwmYn4/long-term-future-fund-may-2021-grant-recommendations#Longtermist_Entrepreneurship_Fellowship

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/6x2MjPXhpPpnatJFQ/some-promising-career-ideas-beyond-80-000-hours-priority#Nonprofit_entrepreneurship

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SppupBEiPCAYA5nLW/cea-s-2020-annual-review#Internal

Weapons of mass destruction

Related entries

anthropogenic existential risk | armed conflict | biosecurity | global governance | Nuclear Threat Initiative | nuclear warfare | peace and conflict studies | terrorism

Make entries for many of the concepts featured on Conceptually? 

I read the content on that site in 2019 and found it useful. I haven't looked through what concepts are on there to see which ones we already have and which ones might be worth adding, but I expect it'd be useful for someone to do so. So I'm noting it here in case someone else can do that (that'd be my preferred outcome!), or to remind myself to do it in a while if I have time. 

Update: I've now made this entry.

Fermi estimation or Fermi estimates

Overlaps with some other things in the Decision Theory and Rationality cluster of the Tags Portal.

Demandingness objection

I'd guess there are at least a few Forum posts quite relevant to this, and having a place to collect them seems nice, but I could be wrong about either of those points.

Antimicrobial resistance or Antibiotic resistance

Not sure enough EAs care about this and/or have written about this on the Forum for it to warrant an entry/tag?

(I don't personally have much interest in this topic, but I'm just one person.)

Update: I've now made this tag.

Something like Bayesianism

Arguments against having this entry/tag:

• Maybe the topic is sufficiently covered by the entries on Epistemology and on Decision theory?

Cognitive biases/Cognitive bias, and/or entries for various specific cognitive biases (e.g. Scope neglect)

I feel unsure whether we should aim to have just a handful of entries for large categories of biases, vs one entry for each of the most relevant biases (even if this means having 5+ or 10+ entries of this type)

Update: I've now made this entry.

Instrumental vs. epistemic rationality

Some brief discussion here.

These terms may basically only be used on the LessWrong community, and may not be prominent or useful enough to warrant an entry here. Not sure.

Metaethical uncertainty and/or Metanormative uncertainty

These concepts are explained here.

I think it's probably best to instead have an entry on "Normative uncertainty" in general that has sections for each of those concepts, as well as sections that briefly describe (regular) Moral uncertainty and Decision-theoretic uncertainty and link to the existing tags on those concepts. (Also, the entry on Moral uncertainty could discuss the question of how to behave when uncertain what approach to moral uncertainty is best, which is metanormative uncertainty.) This is because I think there are relatively few posts specifically on Metaethical and Metanormative uncertainty, and some of those that there are are also relevant to other types of normative uncertainty in a broad sense.

But it's possible that "Normative uncertainty" is best defined as uncertainty just about regular normative ethics, such that it shouldn't be seen as covering metaethical and metanormative uncertainty. And it's also possible that, in any case, those concepts are important enough to warrant their own entries.

Subjective vs. objective normativity

See here and here

Update: I've now made this entry.

Disentanglement research

Defined here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/RCvetzfDnBNFX7pLH/personal-thoughts-on-careers-in-ai-policy-and-strategy

Off the top of my head, I'm not sure how many posts would get this tag. But I know at least that one would, and I'd guess we'd find several more if we looked.

And in any case, this seems to be a useful concept that's frequently invoked in the EA community, so having a short wiki entry on it might be good (even ignoring tagging).

Related entries:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/scalably-involving-people https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/tag/research-methods 

ETA: I've just seen this post: How would you define "disentanglement research"? The existence of that post updates me towards slightly more confidence that this entry would be worth having. And the content in that post could be useful for this entry.

Tag portal question/suggestion:

Many tags are probably relevant for more than one of the categories/clusters used on the tag portal. For example, Economic growth is currently listed under global health & development, but it's also relevant to Long-Term Risk and Flourishing and to Economics & Finance and probably some other things.

Currently, I think each tag is only shown in one place on the portal. That might be the best move.

But maybe they should instead be mentioned in every place where they're (highly) relevant, and where people might expect to find them? E.g., if I checked Economics & Finance and saw no tag for Economic growth, I might assume that that tag doesn't exist and so try to make it.

Maybe there's some elegant third option to handle this?

Crypto or something like that

Some EAs are working on or interested in things like crypto and blockchain, either as investment opportunities or as tools that might be useful for accomplishing things EAs care about (e.g., mechanism design, solving coordination problems). Maybe there should be a tag for posts relevant to such things. I'd guess that there are at least 3 relevant Forum posts, though I haven't checked. 

There are also at least two 80,000 Hours episodes that I think are relevant:

• Vitalik Buterin on better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain’s failures so far, & how it could yet change the world 
• Radical institutional reforms that make capitalism & democracy work better, and how to get them

Update: I've now made this entry

Non-Humans and the Long-Term Future

Why I propose this:

• The following sorts of topics come up decently often:
  • Is longtermism focused only on humans?
  • Should longtermists focus on improving wellbeing for animals?
  • Should longtermists focus on improving wellbeing for artificial sentiences?
  • Are existential risks just about humans?
• Topics like "Will most moral patients in the long-term future be humans? Other animals? Something else? By how large a margin?" also come up sometimes (though less often)
• I think it'd be good to collect posts relevant to those things

Examples of posts that would warrant this tag:

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/W5AGTHm4pTd6TeEP3/should-longtermists-mostly-think-about-animals
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/XrRGKSvntGCZAajGk/longtermism-and-animal-advocacy
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cEqBEeNrhKzDp25fH/the-importance-of-artificial-sentience
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ocmEFL2uDSMzvwL8P/possible-misconceptions-about-strong-longtermism

Alternative tag name options:

• Non-Humans and the Far Future
• Longtermism and Non-Humans

Update: I've now made this entry

Positive futures (or Utopias, or Ideal futures, or something like that)

Proposed description:

The positive futures tag is for posts that discuss things like what a particularly good long-term future might look like and what sorts of ideal long-term futures we might want to aim towards. Reasons to care about this topic include that: 

• How positive the future might be influences how important reducing existential risk is
• Positive visions for the future could motivate work to reduce existential risks
• Thinking about what we want the future to look like might help us work out what scenarios might constitute (non-extinction) existential catastrophes

See also Long-Term Future, Longtermism (Philosophy), and Existential risk.

Or maybe the "reasons to care about this topic" part is too long/my-own-opinion-y to include in a tag description?

Here's an example of a post that would warrant this tag: Characterising utopia. I think many/most posts tagged Fun Theory on LessWrong would also fit this tag.

There are two people I would've sent this tag page to this week, if it existed and was populated with a few posts, and I think their upcoming work may warrant this tag. This is what prompts me to suggest this.

A bit more on my thinking on this, from a shortform post of mine:

Efforts to benefit the long-term future would likely gain from better understanding what we should steer towards, not merely what we should steer away from. This could allow more targeted actions with better chances of securing highly positive futures (not just avoiding existential catastrophes). It could also help us avoid negative futures that may not appear negative when superficially considered in advance. Finally, such positive visions of the future could facilitate cooperation and mitigate potential risks from competition (Dafoe, 2018 [section on "AI Ideal Governance"]). Researchers have begun outlining particular possible futures, arguing for or against them, and surveying people’s preferences for them. 

Fermi Paradox

Arguments for having this tag:

• Seems a potentially very important macrostrategy question
• There are at least some posts relevant to it

Arguments against:

• Not sure if there are more than a few posts highly relevant to this
• Maybe this is not a prominent enough topic to get its own tag, rather than just being subsumed under the Space and Global Priorities Research tags

EA fellowships

I think it might be useful to have a post on EA fellowships, meaning things like the EA Virtual Programs, which "are opportunities to engage intensively with the ideas of effective altruism through weekly readings and small group discussions over the course of eight weeks. These programs are open to anyone regardless of timezone, career stage, or anything else." (And not meaning things like summer research fellowships, for which there's the Research Training Programs tag.)

I think this'd be a subset of the Event strategy tag.

But I'm not sure if there are enough posts that are highly relevant to EA fellowships for it to be worth having this tag in addition to the Event strategy tag. And maybe a somewhat different scope would be better (i.e., maybe something else should be bundled in with this).

Update: I've now made this tag.

ITN

Proposed description: 

The ITN tag is for posts about the Importance, Tractability, Neglectedness framework that is frequently used in effective altruism, or about highly related matters. This could include posts critiquing the ITN framework, discussing in abstract terms how it should and shouldn't be applied, and discussing other factors that could be considered alongside or instead of ITN. 

This tag is not necessarily meant to capture the much larger set of posts which in some way use the ITN framework. 

See also Cause Priorization, Career Choice, Criticism (EA Movement), and Impact Assessment.

I think this post would entirely be a subset of Cause Prioritization, but it seems like an important subset with a bunch of posts in it, and which people might sometimes want to seek out specifically. 

Two posts that would fit in this tag, and that contain links to a bunch of other posts that'd fit, are [WIP] Summary Review of ITN Critiques and Factors other than ITN?

These posts would also fit: 

• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Eav7tedvX96Gk2uKE/the-itn-framework-cost-effectiveness-and-cause
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fR55cjoph2wwiSk8R/formalizing-the-cause-prioritization-framework
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9CWNenpN3xGoMZpoN/understanding-and-evaluating-ea-s-cause-prioritisation
• https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5zSeorTbiKxdmzJq4/introducing-the-stock-issues-framework-the-int-framework-s

Advanced Military Technology (or some other related name)

Proposed description:

The Advanced Military Technology tag is for posts about military technologies that are on the cutting-edge, that are in the process of development, that appear to be on the horizon, or that could plausibly be developed in future. This could include both "entirely new" technologies and substantial advances in existing technologies.

See also Armed Conflict, Autonomous Weapons, and Differential Progress.

Other tags that this overlaps with include: AI Governance, Atomically Precise Manufacturing, Biosecurity, Space, Scientific Progress, Nuclear Weapons, and Biosecurity.

I think that this tag would be entirely a subset of Armed Conflict, but in my view an important subset. I think it would be a superset of Autonomous Weapons. I don't think it would be a subset or superset of any of the other tags I mentioned (as each of those areas can but won't always be about advanced military technologies).

One post that would fit here but might not fit any of the others of those tags except Armed Conflict is What's the big deal about hypersonic missiles?

(Update: I've now made this tag.)

Impact Assessment (or maybe something like Impact Measurement or Measuring Impact)

Proposed rough description: 

The Impact Assessment tag is for posts relevant to "measuring the effectiveness of organisational activities and judging the significance of changes brought about by those activities" (source). This could include posts which include impact assessments; discuss pros, cons, and best practices for impact assessment; or discuss theories of change or forecasts of impacts, against which measured impacts could later be compared. 

See also Org Strategy, Statistical Methods, and Research Methods.

A handful of the many posts that this tag would fit: 

• Rethink Priorities Impact Survey
• Should surveys about the quality/impact of research outputs be more common? 
• Rethink Priorities 2019 Impact and Strategy
• 2017 LEAN Impact Assessment: Qualitative Findings and other posts in that series
• Lessons from a full-time community builder. Part 1 of 4. Impact assessment
• How the Giving Games Project Tracks Its Impact
• Maybe Asking for advice
• Maybe Do research organisations make theory of change diagrams? Should they?
• Maybe Effective Altruism Foundation: Plans for 2020 for the section on "Review of 2019"

Global Catastrophic Risk

Argument against:

• Obviously very related to Existential Risk, and to various other tags like Civilizational Collapse & Recovery and Nuclear Weapons

Argument for:

• Conceptually distinct from all of those other tags (but it's still possible that, in practice, posts that are partly about GCRs specifically will always partly be about one of the related tag topics as well)
• Very important topic in itself, in my view

Some posts that might fit this tag but not the Existential Risk tag:

• Food Crisis - Cascading Events from COVID-19 & Locusts
• *updated* CTA: Food Systems Handbook launch event

Nonlinear Fund

Maybe it's too early to make a tag for that org?

"Economic Policy" or "Macroeconomic Stabilization"

Pros:

• Macroeconomic stabilization is one of the areas that Open Phil works on, but it's not frequently discussed in the EA community. This tag could be specific to macro stabilization or it could encompass all areas of economic policy (aside from economic growth, which already has a tag).
• Land use reform already has a tag.

Cons:

• Could already be encompassed by Policy Change or Less-discussed causes.

Simulation Argument

Arguments for having this tag:

• Seems a potentially very important macrostrategy question
• There are at least some posts relevant to it

Arguments against:

• Not sure if there are more than a couple posts highly relevant to this
• Maybe this is not a prominent enough topic to get its own tag, rather than just being subsumed under the Global Priorities Research tag

Can I create a tag called "EA Philippines", for posts by people related to EA Philippines, such as about our progress or research?  I'd like to easily see a page compiling posts related to EA Philippines. I could create a sequence for this, but a sequence usually implies things are in a sequential order and more related to each other. But our posts will likely be not that related to each other, so a tag would likely be better.

A counterargument is I currently don't see any tags for any EA chapter, except for EA London updates, But these aren't about EA London specifically - they're just the updates they compile on the EA movement. Adding in one tag for one chapter seems harmless, but if eventually 50-100 chapters do this, things might get disorganized. Curious to hear others' thoughts on this!

Country-specific tags

I just saw "creation of country specific content"as an example among the higher rated meta EA areas in the recent article What areas are the most promising to start new EA meta charities - A survey of 40 EAs. What do you think about introducing tags for specific countries? E.g. I'd already have a couple of articles in mind that would be specifically interesting for members of German/Austrian/Swiss communities.

Should we have a tag for "Feedback Request"?

We in EA Philippines have made 2 posts (and have another upcoming one) already that were specifically for requesting feedback from the global EA community on an external document we wrote, before we post this document for the general public. See here and here as examples from EA PH, and this other example from a different author. 

I think it happens quite often that EAs or EA orgs ask for feedback on an external document or on a writeup they have rough thoughts on, so I think it's worth having this tag.

A potential counterargument to this being a tag is that lots of authors (or most authors) would want feedback on their posts anyway, and it's hard separating which ones are feedback requests and which ones aren't. I guess the use of this tag is ideally for posts that authors specifically want answers to a few questions for, or if they want feedback on an external document, rather than just getting general feedback on their article. Would appreciate any thoughts on this!

Sorry if offtopic but how do I remove a tag after wrongly using it?