Do you know about the EleutherAI Discord? There is a lot that happens on there, but there is a group of channels focused on interpretability that is pretty active.
I could be mistaken but I think this Discord is open to anyone to join. It’s a very popular server, looks like it has over 22k members as of today.
So I’m curious if you may have missed the EleutherAI Discord, or if you knew about it but the channels on there were in some way not a good fit for the kind of interpretability discussions you wanted to have on Discord?
The project and discord links were actually posted in the alignment-general channel of EleutherAI Discord. I think the EleutherAI Discord server is really fit to keep up with most aspects of AI safety but not to run small projects. The primary purpose of this new (temporary?) Discord really is organizing little projects, and I think it requires a smaller but more dedicated community.
Yeah basically this, the Eleuther discord is nice but its also not intended for small mechanistic interpretability projects like this, or at least they weren’t happening there. Plus eleuther is also “not the place to ask for technical support or beginner questions” while for this server I think it would be nice if it becomes a place where people share learning resources and get advice and ideas for their MI projects and that kind of thing. Not sure how well its going to work out but if at least some projects end up happening that wouldn’t have happened otherwise I’ll consider it a success even if the server dies out and they go on to work on their own private slacks or discords or whatever.
Ok great, sounds like you all are already well aware and just have a different purpose in mind for this new Discord vs. the interpretability channels on the EleutherAI Discord. B-)
Do you know about the EleutherAI Discord? There is a lot that happens on there, but there is a group of channels focused on interpretability that is pretty active.
I could be mistaken but I think this Discord is open to anyone to join. It’s a very popular server, looks like it has over 22k members as of today.
So I’m curious if you may have missed the EleutherAI Discord, or if you knew about it but the channels on there were in some way not a good fit for the kind of interpretability discussions you wanted to have on Discord?
The project and discord links were actually posted in the alignment-general channel of EleutherAI Discord. I think the EleutherAI Discord server is really fit to keep up with most aspects of AI safety but not to run small projects. The primary purpose of this new (temporary?) Discord really is organizing little projects, and I think it requires a smaller but more dedicated community.
Yeah basically this, the Eleuther discord is nice but its also not intended for small mechanistic interpretability projects like this, or at least they weren’t happening there.
Plus eleuther is also “not the place to ask for technical support or beginner questions” while for this server I think it would be nice if it becomes a place where people share learning resources and get advice and ideas for their MI projects and that kind of thing.
Not sure how well its going to work out but if at least some projects end up happening that wouldn’t have happened otherwise I’ll consider it a success even if the server dies out and they go on to work on their own private slacks or discords or whatever.
Ok great, sounds like you all are already well aware and just have a different purpose in mind for this new Discord vs. the interpretability channels on the EleutherAI Discord. B-)