Wow! Thank you so, so much for all of this!
I tend to think of myself as very engaged with LW2.0 (despite not commenting or posting often) but I didn’t have a very good idea of how much work you were putting in to add features and fix bugs. I’d love to see more frequent posts like this, so we can all get excited together, and show appreciation for everything you and the team are doing. I’m sure that you have a very clear idea of all the features that are being implemented, and how much effort you’ve been pouring into it, but that isn’t always obvious to the occasional site users who haven’t been back for a while. I (and I would bet ~99% of LW) would love to see more updates and requests for support! Honestly, I look at what you’ve achieved this year, and my only concern is that you’re all doing too much for us and you’ll burn out. I’m not saying that’s definitely true, If that *IS* the case, could you please write a post at some point about how readers/contributors/commenters can help take some of the load?
Side note—in case you’re worried that what you’re doing isn’t having an impact on post volume and quality:
The constant addition of features on LW has directly inspired me to finally start sharing the blog posts I’ve written, and X-posting them on LW.
By this stage of their careers, they already have those bits of paper. MIRI are asking people who don’t a priori highly value alignment research to jump through extra hoops they haven’t already cleared, for what they probably perceive as a slim chance of a job outside their wheelhouse. I know a reasonable number of hard science academics, and I don’t know any who would put in that amount of effort in the application for a job they thought would be highly applied for by more qualified applicants. The very phrasing makes it sound like they expect hundreds of applicants and are trying to be exclusive. If nothing else is changed, that should be.