LW and AF are secretly just the same forum. Yes, there’s been an upsurge, but it doesn’t really tell you anything you didn’t already know. (I guess it matters somewhat for site-culture whether people are primarily orienting as “Alignment Forum user” or “LessWrong user”, but either way in practice they end up commenting on LessWrong since that’s where most of the discussion is)
My understanding is the AI forum has a higher quality bar and automatically crossposts to LW. I was wondering if LW is absorbing a lot of new lower-quality posts that didn’t make the cut for AI forum, with AI forum being in a steady state. It sounds like there’s just more AI posting across the board.
LW and AF are secretly just the same forum. Yes, there’s been an upsurge, but it doesn’t really tell you anything you didn’t already know. (I guess it matters somewhat for site-culture whether people are primarily orienting as “Alignment Forum user” or “LessWrong user”, but either way in practice they end up commenting on LessWrong since that’s where most of the discussion is)
My understanding is the AI forum has a higher quality bar and automatically crossposts to LW. I was wondering if LW is absorbing a lot of new lower-quality posts that didn’t make the cut for AI forum, with AI forum being in a steady state. It sounds like there’s just more AI posting across the board.