One thing that I think is missing (maybe just beyond the scope of this post) is thinking about newcomers with a positive frame: how do we help them get up to speed, be welcomed, and become useful contributors?
You could imagine periodic open posts, for instance, where we invite 101-style questions, post your objection to AI risks, etc where more experienced folks could answer those kind of things without cluttering up the main site. Possibly multiple more specific such threads if there’s enough interest.
Then you can tell people who try to post level 1-3 stuff that they should go to those threads instead, and help make sure they get attention.
I’m sure there are other ideas as well—the main point is that we should think of both positive as well as negative actions to take in response to an influx of newbies.
Yeah I think the AI Questions Open Thread series has been good for this (and I’ve been directing people to that where appropriate).
I’ve also been mulling over how to make a good “okay, you’re new, you want to contribute to the AI discussion on LessWrong, what stuff is useful to do?” post.
Oh, oops. I originally intended to include my thoughts about newcomers in this post and must have gotten distracted before I did so. I just add a whole section on that. Thanks for flagging.
Periodic open posts is one of my current favorite ideas of what to do here.
One thing that I think is missing (maybe just beyond the scope of this post) is thinking about newcomers with a positive frame: how do we help them get up to speed, be welcomed, and become useful contributors?
You could imagine periodic open posts, for instance, where we invite 101-style questions, post your objection to AI risks, etc where more experienced folks could answer those kind of things without cluttering up the main site. Possibly multiple more specific such threads if there’s enough interest.
Then you can tell people who try to post level 1-3 stuff that they should go to those threads instead, and help make sure they get attention.
I’m sure there are other ideas as well—the main point is that we should think of both positive as well as negative actions to take in response to an influx of newbies.
Yeah I think the AI Questions Open Thread series has been good for this (and I’ve been directing people to that where appropriate).
I’ve also been mulling over how to make a good “okay, you’re new, you want to contribute to the AI discussion on LessWrong, what stuff is useful to do?” post.
Oh, oops. I originally intended to include my thoughts about newcomers in this post and must have gotten distracted before I did so. I just add a whole section on that. Thanks for flagging.
Periodic open posts is one of my current favorite ideas of what to do here.