a) before, I would have expected many more people to be scared of being eaten by piranhas on LessWrong and not the EA Forum than vice versa. In fact, I didn’t even consider that people could find the EA Forum more scary than LessWrong. (well, before FTX anyway)
b) my current read of the EA Forum (and this has been the case for a while) is that forum people like when you say something like “People should value things other than impact (more)” and that you’re more likely to be eaten by piranhas for saying “People should value impact more” than vice versa.
Take this a slight nudge towards posting on the EA Forum perhaps, although I don’t really have an opinion on whether 2) and 3) might still be true.
The specific things you said about the EA forum seem true but it also seems to me to be a hellscape of vicious social punishment and conformity and suspicion. The existence of a number of people pushing back against that doesn’t quite suffice for feelings of safety, at least according to my own intuitions.
I find this comment super interesting because
a) before, I would have expected many more people to be scared of being eaten by piranhas on LessWrong and not the EA Forum than vice versa. In fact, I didn’t even consider that people could find the EA Forum more scary than LessWrong. (well, before FTX anyway)
b) my current read of the EA Forum (and this has been the case for a while) is that forum people like when you say something like “People should value things other than impact (more)” and that you’re more likely to be eaten by piranhas for saying “People should value impact more” than vice versa.
Take this a slight nudge towards posting on the EA Forum perhaps, although I don’t really have an opinion on whether 2) and 3) might still be true.
The specific things you said about the EA forum seem true but it also seems to me to be a hellscape of vicious social punishment and conformity and suspicion. The existence of a number of people pushing back against that doesn’t quite suffice for feelings of safety, at least according to my own intuitions.