Great initiative! I’m surprised that PDF is the only accepted submission format, given that folks in ML research distillation are pushing for interactive explanations and there are already several great examples (https://distill.pub/). Any reason for that?
Oh, that’s a great point! I’m glad to open to other formats for submissions! PDF was mainly to make the distillations easy to read (as opposed to other formats) because I presumed they would be written. Do you have any recommended formats I open it to, or do you suggest lifting any limitations on format is generally is the best move?
LessWrong/Alignment Forum posts!! I assume here is a natural place to share Alignment distillation and it’ll be much more convenient for people to read the summaries directly in posts rather than having to click through to a PDF (clicking through to links is a trivial inconvenience that really does result in much fewer views). LessWrong posts also have the advantage of a comment section right below.
Among the plans I have is to somehow make LessWrong much better support the creation and display of distillation content, and having good distillation posts would help towards that.
I suppose it could be either a PDF or a web page? A web page is definitely something anyone can open and read :) For people who consider submitting an interactive web page, you could suggest them to use the Distill infrastructure https://distill.pub/guide/ and look at existing examples (https://distill.pub/). One advantage of doing so is that they could then submit their paper to the Distill journal and get more exposure.
I’ve adjusted the submission form so that it’s open to attachments and links now! Thank you to everyone who added thoughts on this! Soon I’ll add some notes to my website to encourage people to make posts and apply to Distill’s journal :)
Great initiative! I’m surprised that PDF is the only accepted submission format, given that folks in ML research distillation are pushing for interactive explanations and there are already several great examples (https://distill.pub/). Any reason for that?
Oh, that’s a great point! I’m glad to open to other formats for submissions! PDF was mainly to make the distillations easy to read (as opposed to other formats) because I presumed they would be written. Do you have any recommended formats I open it to, or do you suggest lifting any limitations on format is generally is the best move?
LessWrong/Alignment Forum posts!! I assume here is a natural place to share Alignment distillation and it’ll be much more convenient for people to read the summaries directly in posts rather than having to click through to a PDF (clicking through to links is a trivial inconvenience that really does result in much fewer views). LessWrong posts also have the advantage of a comment section right below.
Among the plans I have is to somehow make LessWrong much better support the creation and display of distillation content, and having good distillation posts would help towards that.
I suppose it could be either a PDF or a web page? A web page is definitely something anyone can open and read :) For people who consider submitting an interactive web page, you could suggest them to use the Distill infrastructure https://distill.pub/guide/ and look at existing examples (https://distill.pub/). One advantage of doing so is that they could then submit their paper to the Distill journal and get more exposure.
I’ve adjusted the submission form so that it’s open to attachments and links now! Thank you to everyone who added thoughts on this! Soon I’ll add some notes to my website to encourage people to make posts and apply to Distill’s journal :)