Leverage has always been at least socially adjacent to LW and EA (the earliest discussion I find is in 2012), and they hosted the earliest EA summits in 2013-2014 (before CEA started running EA Global).
Having seen it, I have a very vague recollection of maybe having read that at the time. Still, the amount of activity on the recent posts about Leverage seems to me all out of proportion with previous mentions/discussions.
Also, for the extended Leverage diaspora and people who are somehow connected, LessWrong is probably the most obvious place to have this discussion, even if people familiar with Leverage make up only a small proportion of people who normally contribute here.
There are other conversations happening on Facebook and Twitter but they are all way more fragmented than the ones here.
I originally chose LessWrong, instead of some other venue, to host the Common Knowledge post primarily because (1) I wanted to create a publicly-linkable document pseudonymously, and (2) I expected high-quality continuation of information-sharing and collaborative sense-making in the comments.
Leverage has always been at least socially adjacent to LW and EA (the earliest discussion I find is in 2012), and they hosted the earliest EA summits in 2013-2014 (before CEA started running EA Global).
Having seen it, I have a very vague recollection of maybe having read that at the time. Still, the amount of activity on the recent posts about Leverage seems to me all out of proportion with previous mentions/discussions.
Also, for the extended Leverage diaspora and people who are somehow connected, LessWrong is probably the most obvious place to have this discussion, even if people familiar with Leverage make up only a small proportion of people who normally contribute here.
There are other conversations happening on Facebook and Twitter but they are all way more fragmented than the ones here.
I originally chose LessWrong, instead of some other venue, to host the Common Knowledge post primarily because (1) I wanted to create a publicly-linkable document pseudonymously, and (2) I expected high-quality continuation of information-sharing and collaborative sense-making in the comments.