IDK, like 15% of submissions to LW seem currently AI governance and outreach focused. I don’t really get the premise of the post. It’s currently probably tied for the most popular post category on the site (my guess is a bit behind more technical AI Alignment work, but not by that much).
Here is a quick spreadsheet where I classify submissions in the “AI” tag by whether they are substantially about AI Governance:
Overall results: 34% of submissions under the AI tag seem pretty clearly relevant to AI Governane or are about AI governance, and additional 12% are “maybe”. In other words, there really is a lot of AI Governance discussion on LW.
Huh, interesting. We seem to understand different things under the term “policy” there. Going by the titles alone, I’d only have counted lines 13, 18-20 as “yes” and 33 as “maybe”. So 12-15%. 9-13% if I exclude this post, which has been made after observing the ratio.
Still curious what percentage they make up among total submissions, not only under the AI tag.
Yeah, I don’t the classification is super obvious. I categorized all things that had AI policy relevance, even if not directly about AI policy.
23 is IMO also very unambiguously AI policy relevant (ignoring quality). Zvi’s analysis almost always includes lots of AI policy discussion, so I think 33 is also a clear “Yes”. The other ones seem like harder calls.
Sampling all posts also wouldn’t be too hard. My guess is you get something in the 10-20%-ish range of posts by similar standards.
IDK, like 15% of submissions to LW seem currently AI governance and outreach focused. I don’t really get the premise of the post. It’s currently probably tied for the most popular post category on the site (my guess is a bit behind more technical AI Alignment work, but not by that much).
Here is a quick spreadsheet where I classify submissions in the “AI” tag by whether they are substantially about AI Governance:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5HWeH8wx7lUdHDq_FGtNcA0blbWW4798Cs5s54IGww/edit?usp=sharing
Overall results: 34% of submissions under the AI tag seem pretty clearly relevant to AI Governane or are about AI governance, and additional 12% are “maybe”. In other words, there really is a lot of AI Governance discussion on LW.
Huh, interesting. We seem to understand different things under the term “policy” there. Going by the titles alone, I’d only have counted lines 13, 18-20 as “yes” and 33 as “maybe”. So 12-15%. 9-13% if I exclude this post, which has been made after observing the ratio.
Still curious what percentage they make up among total submissions, not only under the AI tag.
Yeah, I don’t the classification is super obvious. I categorized all things that had AI policy relevance, even if not directly about AI policy.
23 is IMO also very unambiguously AI policy relevant (ignoring quality). Zvi’s analysis almost always includes lots of AI policy discussion, so I think 33 is also a clear “Yes”. The other ones seem like harder calls.
Sampling all posts also wouldn’t be too hard. My guess is you get something in the 10-20%-ish range of posts by similar standards.