(Ep. vibes: I went to few EA cons, and subscribed to the forum digest.)
I blame EA. They were simply too successful.
There are the following effects at play:
Bad AI gonna kill us all :(
Preparing for emergent threats is one of the most effective ways to help others.
The best way to have good ideas is to have a lot of ideas; and the best way to have a lot of ideas is to have a lot of people.
Large funnels were built for new AI Safety researchers.
The largest discussions about the topic happened at LW and rat circles.
The general advice I heard at EA conferences in late Feb/Mar (notice the spike! it’s March, before the big doompost edit: it’s really after the doompost, I misread the graphs) is that you should go to LW for AI-specific stuff.
What a coincidence that the AI-on-LW flood and the cries for the drop in EA Forum quality happened at the same time. I think with the EA Movement growing exponentially in numbers, both sites are getting eternal septembered.
I think the solution could be to create a new frontpage for ai related discussions, like “personal blog”, “LW frontpage”, “AI Safety frontpage” categories. Or go through the whole subforum routes, with childboards and stuff like that.
(Ep. vibes: I went to few EA cons, and subscribed to the forum digest.)
I blame EA. They were simply too successful.
There are the following effects at play:
Bad AI gonna kill us all :(
Preparing for emergent threats is one of the most effective ways to help others.
The best way to have good ideas is to have a lot of ideas; and the best way to have a lot of ideas is to have a lot of people.
Large funnels were built for new AI Safety researchers.
The largest discussions about the topic happened at LW and rat circles.
The general advice I heard at EA conferences in late Feb/Mar (
notice the spike! it’s March, before the big doompostedit: it’s really after the doompost, I misread the graphs) is that you should go to LW for AI-specific stuff.What a coincidence that the AI-on-LW flood and the cries for the drop in EA Forum quality happened at the same time. I think with the EA Movement growing exponentially in numbers, both sites are getting eternal septembered.
I think the solution could be to create a new frontpage for ai related discussions, like “personal blog”, “LW frontpage”, “AI Safety frontpage” categories. Or go through the whole subforum routes, with childboards and stuff like that.
There’s also the encouragement to post to LW as a method of getting noticed and in that way finding an alignment job/team/project