Update: I’ve now submitted a version of this post to the worldviews contest, and will likely not make further edits.
This post hasn’t gotten much engagement on LW or the EA forum so far though.
Some hypotheses for why:
it’s too long / dense / boring
people view it as mostly re-treading old ground
it’s not 101-friendly and requires a lot of background material to grapple with
I posted it initially at the end of a holiday weekend, and it dropped off the front page before most people had a chance to see it at all.
Some people only read longform, especially about AI, if it is by a well-known author or has at least a few upvotes already. This post did not break through some initial threshold before dropping off the front page, and was thus not read by many people, even if they saw the title.
There is too much other AI content on LW; people saw it but chose not to read or not to upvote because they were busy reading other content.
Lots of people saw it, but felt it was not good enough for its length to be worth an upvote, but not wrong enough to deserve a downvote.
parts of it are wrong / unclear / misleading in some way
Lots of people filter or down-weight the “AI” tag, and this post doesn’t have any other tags (e.g. world modeling) which are less likely to be down-weighted.
Something else I’m not thinking of.
I am slightly hesitant to ask for more engagement directly, but if you read or skimmed more than 30% of the post, I’d appreciate an “I saw this” react on this comment. (If you read this comment, but didn’t read the original post, feel free to react to this comment instead.)
If you have thoughts about why this post didn’t get much engagement, feel free to reply here.
Update: I’ve now submitted a version of this post to the worldviews contest, and will likely not make further edits.
This post hasn’t gotten much engagement on LW or the EA forum so far though.
Some hypotheses for why:
it’s too long / dense / boring
people view it as mostly re-treading old ground
it’s not 101-friendly and requires a lot of background material to grapple with
I posted it initially at the end of a holiday weekend, and it dropped off the front page before most people had a chance to see it at all.
Some people only read longform, especially about AI, if it is by a well-known author or has at least a few upvotes already. This post did not break through some initial threshold before dropping off the front page, and was thus not read by many people, even if they saw the title.
There is too much other AI content on LW; people saw it but chose not to read or not to upvote because they were busy reading other content.
Lots of people saw it, but felt it was not good enough for its length to be worth an upvote, but not wrong enough to deserve a downvote.
parts of it are wrong / unclear / misleading in some way
Lots of people filter or down-weight the “AI” tag, and this post doesn’t have any other tags (e.g. world modeling) which are less likely to be down-weighted.
Something else I’m not thinking of.
I am slightly hesitant to ask for more engagement directly, but if you read or skimmed more than 30% of the post, I’d appreciate an “I saw this” react on this comment. (If you read this comment, but didn’t read the original post, feel free to react to this comment instead.)
If you have thoughts about why this post didn’t get much engagement, feel free to reply here.