I think (but am unsure) that what I care about is more like a metric for “is useful intellectual progress getting made” (whether or not LessWrong-the-website was causal in that progress).
Seems reasonable. From my perspective LW review is very bad for measuring overall (human) progress on achieving good things, though plausibly better than any other specific review or ranking process that has a considerable amount of buy in.
Do you think replacing (or at least combining) LW Review with the Open Problems frame would be an improvement on that axis?
Also: does it seem useful to you to measure overall progress on [the cluster of good things that the rationality and/or alignment community are pointed at?]?
Do you think replacing (or at least combining) LW Review with the Open Problems frame would be an improvement on that axis?
Uh, maybe for combining? I think my main complaint with LW review as a metric is more just that I disagree with the preferences of other people and think that a bunch of work is happening on places other than LW. I don’t really think Open Problems helps much with this from my perspective. (In many cases I can’t name a clear and operationalized open problem and more just think “more progress here would be good.)
Seems reasonable. From my perspective LW review is very bad for measuring overall (human) progress on achieving good things, though plausibly better than any other specific review or ranking process that has a considerable amount of buy in.
I wasn’t quite sure from your phrasings:
Do you think replacing (or at least combining) LW Review with the Open Problems frame would be an improvement on that axis?
Also: does it seem useful to you to measure overall progress on [the cluster of good things that the rationality and/or alignment community are pointed at?]?
Uh, maybe for combining? I think my main complaint with LW review as a metric is more just that I disagree with the preferences of other people and think that a bunch of work is happening on places other than LW. I don’t really think Open Problems helps much with this from my perspective. (In many cases I can’t name a clear and operationalized open problem and more just think “more progress here would be good.)