I’ve been running a safety grad student reading group, and feeling like it would be healthier / more productive to have concrete metrics or deliverables.
My tentative idea to incorporate LW / Alignment Forum posting as a core component of the group (with karma as a metric). I’m not exactly sure on the structure, but something like:
Reading week (everyone reads the same set of papers / blog posts, discuss thought
Writing week: everyone prepares comment / shortform / post, then we trade and revise writers-workshop style
this also provides filtering (avoid spamming LW with bad comments) and maybe makes people feel more comfortable/confident about posting public writing
would love feedback, and curious if anyone has tried stuff like this.
I’ve been running a safety grad student reading group, and feeling like it would be healthier / more productive to have concrete metrics or deliverables.
My tentative idea to incorporate LW / Alignment Forum posting as a core component of the group (with karma as a metric). I’m not exactly sure on the structure, but something like:
Reading week (everyone reads the same set of papers / blog posts, discuss thought
Writing week: everyone prepares comment / shortform / post, then we trade and revise writers-workshop style
this also provides filtering (avoid spamming LW with bad comments) and maybe makes people feel more comfortable/confident about posting public writing
would love feedback, and curious if anyone has tried stuff like this.
(Another nice feature of this is it increases the odds of getting people hooked on LW, which imo should be a top priority for safety field-building, c.f. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ke24kxhSzfX2ycy57/simon-lermen-s-shortform?commentId=HqQsNdp4bdp4nDn7G)
Boaz Barak’s course at Harvard has been doing this! See here for the associated posts: https://www.lesswrong.com/w/cs-2881r