[Meta] I’m not a full member on Alignment Forum, but I’ve had some of my LW content cross-posted to AF. However, this cross-posting seems haphazard, and does not correspond to my intuitive feeling of which of my posts/comments “should” end up on AF. I would like for one of the following to happen:
More insight into the mechanism that decides what gets cross-posted, so I feel less annoyed at the arbitrary-seeming nature of it.
More control over what gets cross-posted (if this requires applying for full membership, I would be willing to do that).
Have all my AF cross-posting be undone so that readers don’t get a misleading impression of my AI alignment content. (I would like to avoid people visiting my AF profile, reading content there, and concluding something about my AI alignment output based on that.)
There is currently a small set of moderators/admins who can move posts by non-AIAF members from LW to the AI Alignment Forum. The full list is for users who can move over posts:
Scott Garrabrant
Vaniver
Rohin Shah
Oliver Habryka
Vika
Abram Demski
Ben Pace
ricraz
Every AIAF user can suggest a post to be moved over to the forum, which then usually gets processed by Vaniver.
My sense (guessing from your post history) is that you are mostly confused about comments. For comments, any AIAF member can move comments over from any other user, and this also automatically happens when they make an AIAF-tagged reply to a non-AIAF comment. My sense is that currently most comments that get moved over to the AIAF by non-AIAF members is because someone wanted to reply to it on the AIAF.
For both cases, Vaniver is admin of the forum and has final say on what gets moved over or not.
My sense (guessing from your post history) is that you are mostly confused about comments.
I am more confused about posts than comments. For posts, only my comparison of decision theories post is currently cross-posted to AF, but I actually think my post about deliberation, question about iterative approaches to alignment (along with Rohin’s answer), and question about coordination on AI progress projects are more relevant to AF (either because they make new claims or because they encourage others to do so). If I see that a particular post hasn’t been cross-posted to AF, I’m wondering if I should be thinking more like “every single moderator has looked at the post, and believes it doesn’t belong on AF” or more like “either the moderators are busy, or something about the post title caused them to not look at the post, and it sort of fell through the cracks”.
In my case in particular, it’s definitely more the second case; I promote posts to AF pretty haphazardly. (I’m not sure if I’ve ever done it for a post I didn’t already know about before it was posted.)
[Meta] I’m not a full member on Alignment Forum, but I’ve had some of my LW content cross-posted to AF. However, this cross-posting seems haphazard, and does not correspond to my intuitive feeling of which of my posts/comments “should” end up on AF. I would like for one of the following to happen:
More insight into the mechanism that decides what gets cross-posted, so I feel less annoyed at the arbitrary-seeming nature of it.
More control over what gets cross-posted (if this requires applying for full membership, I would be willing to do that).
Have all my AF cross-posting be undone so that readers don’t get a misleading impression of my AI alignment content. (I would like to avoid people visiting my AF profile, reading content there, and concluding something about my AI alignment output based on that.)
There is currently a small set of moderators/admins who can move posts by non-AIAF members from LW to the AI Alignment Forum. The full list is for users who can move over posts:
Scott Garrabrant
Vaniver
Rohin Shah
Oliver Habryka
Vika
Abram Demski
Ben Pace
ricraz
Every AIAF user can suggest a post to be moved over to the forum, which then usually gets processed by Vaniver.
My sense (guessing from your post history) is that you are mostly confused about comments. For comments, any AIAF member can move comments over from any other user, and this also automatically happens when they make an AIAF-tagged reply to a non-AIAF comment. My sense is that currently most comments that get moved over to the AIAF by non-AIAF members is because someone wanted to reply to it on the AIAF.
For both cases, Vaniver is admin of the forum and has final say on what gets moved over or not.
Thanks!
I am more confused about posts than comments. For posts, only my comparison of decision theories post is currently cross-posted to AF, but I actually think my post about deliberation, question about iterative approaches to alignment (along with Rohin’s answer), and question about coordination on AI progress projects are more relevant to AF (either because they make new claims or because they encourage others to do so). If I see that a particular post hasn’t been cross-posted to AF, I’m wondering if I should be thinking more like “every single moderator has looked at the post, and believes it doesn’t belong on AF” or more like “either the moderators are busy, or something about the post title caused them to not look at the post, and it sort of fell through the cracks”.
I think currently it’s more likely to be the second case.
I do think we can probably do better here. I will ping Vaniver about his thoughts on this.
In my case in particular, it’s definitely more the second case; I promote posts to AF pretty haphazardly. (I’m not sure if I’ve ever done it for a post I didn’t already know about before it was posted.)