The community tag was originally introduced as a way to separate out FTX-scandal related tags. Now that that purpose is no longer relevant it serves as a way of de facto deprioritising posts. It’s also very top-down: ironically, the community can neither tag nor untag ‘community’; only CEA can do that. I worry this leads to a bias in CEA and their close supporters’ posts not receiving the tag—see e.g. this recent post, which is about as community-oriented as anything I’ve seen on the forum. [1]
Whether or not such a bias exists, the tagging is noisy. As an experiment, see if you can guess without looking which of the following posts received the tag and which didn’t:
EA Summit: Santiago 2025 – Retrospective
How important are differing cultural attitudes toward corruption?
The anti-fragile culture
The Effective Altruist View of History (Effective Altruism Definitions Sequence)
Good Governance: Unweirding Boards
Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial? (an overview of the arguments and counterarguments)
A reflection on EA Global London: 2025
EA Organization Updates: August 2025
A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!
Why I’m excited about AI safety talent development initiatives
AMA with recruiters at impact-focused orgs
[Event] Building What the Future Needs: A curated conference in Berlin (Sep 6, 2025) for high-impact builders and researchers
Working doc: how did Anthropic accelerate development or dilute policy efforts?
EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel
Wave 2 of Pulse: Awareness and perceptions of Effective Altruism
How to Think about Collective Impact
Applications are now open for EAGxSingapore 2025
Answers below:
Not community: * Why I’m excited about AI safety talent development initiatives * How important are differing cultural attitudes toward corruption? * We’ve migrated the EA Opportunities Board to effectivealtruism.org * How to Think about Collective Impact * Wave 2 of Pulse: Awareness and perceptions of Effective Altruism * Applications are now open for EAGxSingapore 2025 * EA Organization Updates: August 2025 * [Event] Building What the Future Needs: A curated conference in Berlin (Sep 6, 2025) for high-impact builders and researchers * A reflection on EA Global London: 2025 * The Effective Altruist View of History (Effective Altruism Definitions Sequence)
Community: * A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers! * EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel * Good Governance: Unweirding Boards * EA Summit: Santiago 2025 – Retrospective * Working doc: how did Anthropic accelerate development or dilute policy efforts? * The anti-fragile culture * AMA with recruiters at impact-focused orgs * Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial? (an overview of the arguments and counterarguments)
Entertainingly, if you click the ‘add topics’ button, you’ll briefly see the tag-predictor wanting to label it ‘community’ for a fraction of a second before it’s deleted from the popup, presumably for not being addable.
The ‘community’ tag is problematic
The community tag was originally introduced as a way to separate out FTX-scandal related tags. Now that that purpose is no longer relevant it serves as a way of de facto deprioritising posts. It’s also very top-down: ironically, the community can neither tag nor untag ‘community’; only CEA can do that. I worry this leads to a bias in CEA and their close supporters’ posts not receiving the tag—see e.g. this recent post, which is about as community-oriented as anything I’ve seen on the forum. [1]
Whether or not such a bias exists, the tagging is noisy. As an experiment, see if you can guess without looking which of the following posts received the tag and which didn’t:
EA Summit: Santiago 2025 – Retrospective
How important are differing cultural attitudes toward corruption?
The anti-fragile culture
The Effective Altruist View of History (Effective Altruism Definitions Sequence)
Good Governance: Unweirding Boards
Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial? (an overview of the arguments and counterarguments)
A reflection on EA Global London: 2025
EA Organization Updates: August 2025
A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!
Why I’m excited about AI safety talent development initiatives
AMA with recruiters at impact-focused orgs
[Event] Building What the Future Needs: A curated conference in Berlin (Sep 6, 2025) for high-impact builders and researchers
We’ve migrated the EA Opportunities Board to effectivealtruism.org
Working doc: how did Anthropic accelerate development or dilute policy efforts?
EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel
Wave 2 of Pulse: Awareness and perceptions of Effective Altruism
How to Think about Collective Impact
Applications are now open for EAGxSingapore 2025
Answers below:
Not community:
* Why I’m excited about AI safety talent development initiatives
* How important are differing cultural attitudes toward corruption?
* We’ve migrated the EA Opportunities Board to effectivealtruism.org
* How to Think about Collective Impact
* Wave 2 of Pulse: Awareness and perceptions of Effective Altruism
* Applications are now open for EAGxSingapore 2025
* EA Organization Updates: August 2025
* [Event] Building What the Future Needs: A curated conference in Berlin (Sep 6, 2025) for high-impact builders and researchers
* A reflection on EA Global London: 2025
* The Effective Altruist View of History (Effective Altruism Definitions Sequence)
Community:
* A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!
* EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel
* Good Governance: Unweirding Boards
* EA Summit: Santiago 2025 – Retrospective
* Working doc: how did Anthropic accelerate development or dilute policy efforts?
* The anti-fragile culture
* AMA with recruiters at impact-focused orgs
* Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial? (an overview of the arguments and counterarguments)
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Entertainingly, if you click the ‘add topics’ button, you’ll briefly see the tag-predictor wanting to label it ‘community’ for a fraction of a second before it’s deleted from the popup, presumably for not being addable.