It’s neither. The MIRI Summer Fellows programme is currently running, and the participants spent today writing up various ideas that they’d been thinking about, and posting them to the forum. (I visited, chatted with them about what to blog about, goals for the new forum, selfish and pro-social benefits to blogging, etc.) It was an exciting one-off thing, we may try more such writing days in future—I enjoyed reading all the posts, from the longer, puzzling walks, to the short-and-sweet nuggets of technical insight.
The goal for the participants was to gain the affordance to just sit down and turn an idea into a blogpost. I think it was successful.
I think it would have been better to space out the posting of the posts more, even if it makes sense to write them up all on the same day. That way each post can receive more attention and discussion, and the authors would get more positive feedback for their efforts.
I agree with this. One of the considerations pushing towards having them all posted at the same time, is that we wanted to have people comment on each other’s posts after they had written their own. I think this ended up happening less, but was definitely a goal.
Why are there suddenly so many posts today? Is this due to the imports or is this representative of the volume on Alignment Forum?
It’s neither. The MIRI Summer Fellows programme is currently running, and the participants spent today writing up various ideas that they’d been thinking about, and posting them to the forum. (I visited, chatted with them about what to blog about, goals for the new forum, selfish and pro-social benefits to blogging, etc.) It was an exciting one-off thing, we may try more such writing days in future—I enjoyed reading all the posts, from the longer, puzzling walks, to the short-and-sweet nuggets of technical insight.
The goal for the participants was to gain the affordance to just sit down and turn an idea into a blogpost. I think it was successful.
I think it would have been better to space out the posting of the posts more, even if it makes sense to write them up all on the same day. That way each post can receive more attention and discussion, and the authors would get more positive feedback for their efforts.
I think that they didn’t predict that so many of us would actually write blog posts.
This is correct. Last year we got approximately two.
I agree with this. One of the considerations pushing towards having them all posted at the same time, is that we wanted to have people comment on each other’s posts after they had written their own. I think this ended up happening less, but was definitely a goal.
Seconding this. Posting so much at once makes it very hard to digest.