I think it would be better if the default was that LW is a site about AI and longtermist cause areas and other stuff was hidden by default. (Or other stuff is shown by default on rat.lesswrong.com or whatever.)
Correspondingly, I wouldn’t like penalizing multiple of the same tag.
I think the non-AI stuff is less good for the world than the AI stuff and there are downsides in having LW feature non-AI stuff from my perspective (e.g., it’s more weird and random from the perspective of relevant people).
Yes, but random people can’t comment or post on the alignment forum and in practice I find that lots of AI relevant stuff doesn’t make it there (and the frontpage is generally worse than my lesswrong frontpage after misc tweaking).
TBC, I’m not really trying to make a case that something should happen here, just trying to quickly articulate why I don’t think the alignment forum fully addresses what I want.
(In case that came across as sarcastic, I sincerely appreciate your stating the position clearly and think lots of other people probably hold that position. I’m being a little silly with paraphrasing a meme, but I mean it in a friendly kind of silly way.)
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I think it would be better if the default was that LW is a site about AI and longtermist cause areas and other stuff was hidden by default. (Or other stuff is shown by default on rat.lesswrong.com or whatever.)
Correspondingly, I wouldn’t like penalizing multiple of the same tag.
I think the non-AI stuff is less good for the world than the AI stuff and there are downsides in having LW feature non-AI stuff from my perspective (e.g., it’s more weird and random from the perspective of relevant people).
Your preferences are reasonable preferences, and also I disagree with them and plan to push the weird fanfiction and cognitive self-improvement angles on LessWrong. May I offer you a nice AlignmentForum in this trying time?
Yes, but random people can’t comment or post on the alignment forum and in practice I find that lots of AI relevant stuff doesn’t make it there (and the frontpage is generally worse than my lesswrong frontpage after misc tweaking).
TBC, I’m not really trying to make a case that something should happen here, just trying to quickly articulate why I don’t think the alignment forum fully addresses what I want.
(In case that came across as sarcastic, I sincerely appreciate your stating the position clearly and think lots of other people probably hold that position. I’m being a little silly with paraphrasing a meme, but I mean it in a friendly kind of silly way.)
(I would not work on LessWrong if that was the case and think it would be very harmful for the world)