It would for example be possible to have a notice at the bottom of alignment forum pages to user that aren’t locked in that says: “If you aren’t a member of the alignment forum and want to comment on this post, you can do so at [link to LessWrong post]. Learn more [link to FAQ]”
Such a link would strengthen the association between LessWrong and AIAF for a naive user that reads a AIAF posts. There might be drawbacks for strengthen that association but it would help the naive user to get the idea that the way to interact with AIAF posts for non-AIAF members is through LessWrong.
I agree that most people don’t read the manual, but I think that if you’re confused about something and then don’t read the manual, it’s on you.
The goal of AIAF is to be well accepted by the AI field. If people from that field come to AIAF and have a lesser opinion of AIAF because they don’t really understand how it works, you can say that’s on them but it’s still bad for AIAF.
It would for example be possible to have a notice at the bottom of alignment forum pages to user that aren’t locked in that says: “If you aren’t a member of the alignment forum and want to comment on this post, you can do so at [link to LessWrong post]. Learn more [link to FAQ]”
Such a link would strengthen the association between LessWrong and AIAF for a naive user that reads a AIAF posts. There might be drawbacks for strengthen that association but it would help the naive user to get the idea that the way to interact with AIAF posts for non-AIAF members is through LessWrong.
The goal of AIAF is to be well accepted by the AI field. If people from that field come to AIAF and have a lesser opinion of AIAF because they don’t really understand how it works, you can say that’s on them but it’s still bad for AIAF.
Yeah, I was proposing something like this in this comment response to Peter.