One major reason why there is so much AI content on LessWrong is that very few people are allowed to post on the Alignment Forum.
I analyzed some recent AI posts on LessWrong and found that only about 15% of the authors were also members of the Alignment Forum. I’m personally very interested in AI but I post all of my AI content on LessWrong and not the Alignment Forum because I’m not a member.
Anecdotally, I several people working full-time on AI safety who are still not members of the Alignment Forum and consequently post all their work on LessWrong.
My recommendation is to increase the number of people who are allowed to post on the Alignment Forum because the bar seems too high. And instead of having just a single class of members, there could be more members but different grades of members.
There are other reasons why AI has become more popular relative to rationality. Rationality isn’t really a field that progresses as fast as AI and consequently, writing on topics such as cognitive biases is already covered in The Sequences.
On the other hand, breakthroughs are made every week in the field of AI which prompts people to write about it.
One major reason why there is so much AI content on LessWrong is that very few people are allowed to post on the Alignment Forum.
I analyzed some recent AI posts on LessWrong and found that only about 15% of the authors were also members of the Alignment Forum. I’m personally very interested in AI but I post all of my AI content on LessWrong and not the Alignment Forum because I’m not a member.
Anecdotally, I several people working full-time on AI safety who are still not members of the Alignment Forum and consequently post all their work on LessWrong.
My recommendation is to increase the number of people who are allowed to post on the Alignment Forum because the bar seems too high. And instead of having just a single class of members, there could be more members but different grades of members.
There are other reasons why AI has become more popular relative to rationality. Rationality isn’t really a field that progresses as fast as AI and consequently, writing on topics such as cognitive biases is already covered in The Sequences.
On the other hand, breakthroughs are made every week in the field of AI which prompts people to write about it.
Everything on the alignment forum gets crossposted to LW, so letting more people post on AF wouldn’t decrease the amount of AI content on LW.