I frontpaged it because I am very excited about bets on timelines/takeoff speeds. I do think the title and framing about what EA leadership should do is not really a good fit for frontpage, and (for frontpage) I would much prefer a post title that’s something like “A Concrete Bet Offer To Those With Short-Timelines”.
LessWrong is primarily a place to understand human rationality, AI, existential risk, and more, it is not primarily a place to do social coordination bids, and I want to select much more on users interested in and excited by the former than the latter.
It would have made a difference, yes, though on the margin getting even closer to the object level is better for frontpage IMO.
Speaking as a moderator, it’s not obvious to me that LessWrong shouldn’t be a place where coordination happens.
It’s scary and I don’t know how to cause it to happen well, but if not here, where? We’d have to build something else (totally an option, but not something anyone has done).
Yeah I think insofar as it’s happened on LessWrong it’s been better than happening on e.g. Facebook or only in-person.
The rough story I am hoping for here is something like “Come for the frontpage object-level content, stay for the frontpage object-level content, but also you’ll likely model / engage with local politics a bit if you stay (which is on personal blog).”
I frontpaged it because I am very excited about bets on timelines/takeoff speeds. I do think the title and framing about what EA leadership should do is not really a good fit for frontpage, and (for frontpage) I would much prefer a post title that’s something like “A Concrete Bet Offer To Those With Short-Timelines”.
Thanks, I more-or-less adopted this exact title. I hope that makes things look a bit better.
Seems good to me, thank you.
Why do you think this?
Would it have made a difference if, instead of referring to EA leadership, the post had said “we should sound the alarm” (as in readers/LW/EAs)?
LessWrong is primarily a place to understand human rationality, AI, existential risk, and more, it is not primarily a place to do social coordination bids, and I want to select much more on users interested in and excited by the former than the latter.
It would have made a difference, yes, though on the margin getting even closer to the object level is better for frontpage IMO.
Speaking as a moderator, it’s not obvious to me that LessWrong shouldn’t be a place where coordination happens.
It’s scary and I don’t know how to cause it to happen well, but if not here, where? We’d have to build something else (totally an option, but not something anyone has done).
Yeah I think insofar as it’s happened on LessWrong it’s been better than happening on e.g. Facebook or only in-person.
The rough story I am hoping for here is something like “Come for the frontpage object-level content, stay for the frontpage object-level content, but also you’ll likely model / engage with local politics a bit if you stay (which is on personal blog).”