I think a big reason for this is that a lot of people are focused more on AI risk than they used to be, and AI risk discussion happens mostly on LessWrong, and a lot of LessWrong power users do not like the culture on the EA Forum (for reasons I don’t fully understand).
One anecdote that comes to mind is that Holden’s post on Anthropic’s RSP v3 got only 8 comments on EAF compared to 83 comments on LW, and the top comment on EAF was just me copy/pasting some of the top comments from LW.
Also, most of the posts on EAF lately are bad bot posts (see my post from today). But if you just look at posts with >30 upvotes or so, I think their quality is still about as good as ever.
Yeah, I agree with this. I do think the EA Forum still has decent posts, but the frequency is just declining a lot. I definitely think a huge part of this is that lots of former power users mostly do AI stuff now, and the Forum doesn’t seem great for AI discussion.
I think a big reason for this is that a lot of people are focused more on AI risk than they used to be, and AI risk discussion happens mostly on LessWrong, and a lot of LessWrong power users do not like the culture on the EA Forum (for reasons I don’t fully understand).
One anecdote that comes to mind is that Holden’s post on Anthropic’s RSP v3 got only 8 comments on EAF compared to 83 comments on LW, and the top comment on EAF was just me copy/pasting some of the top comments from LW.
Also, most of the posts on EAF lately are bad bot posts (see my post from today). But if you just look at posts with >30 upvotes or so, I think their quality is still about as good as ever.
Yeah, I agree with this. I do think the EA Forum still has decent posts, but the frequency is just declining a lot. I definitely think a huge part of this is that lots of former power users mostly do AI stuff now, and the Forum doesn’t seem great for AI discussion.
FWIW it’s very easy to cross-post between LW and EAF, so I post all my AI-related posts on both.
Note: It’s easiest from the EAF side because there’s a “Cross-post to LessWrong” checkbox.