Hmm! If you talk to policymakers face to face, that is something you can leverage to get LessWrong folks interested in you!
How many have you talked to, and how many will you talk to, and on what level are they on?
You might make a short Question Post highlighting that you’re a lawyer talking to some policymakers. Even if it’s a small number and they are low level, a little bit is far better than nothing.
Then you might ask an open-ended question, “what should I say to them?”
And you can include what you are currently saying to them in a collapsed sections or link to previous posts. Maybe summaries of past conversations can be put in collapsed sections too.
I’m not sure. I’m definitely not an expert in good LW posts, but my intuition is this one might get a better response.
My feeling is a ton of people on LessWrong are dying to make their message known to policymakers but they are falling on deaf ears. (Arguably, I am one of them, I once wrote this, and got ignored when I cold-emailed policymakers)
Someone who actually talks to policymakers (albeit European ones… haha) would be the most welcome.
:) that’s great.
I think you are very modest, and have a tendency to undersell the influence you have. Don’t do that in your quick take or post, make it clear from the beginning what positions you are in, and who you get to interact with :D