I was confused by the headline. “Ben Garfinkel: How Sure are we about this AI Stuff?” would make it clear that it is not some kind of official statement from the CEA. Changing an author to EA Global or even to the co-authorship of EA Global and Ben Garfinkel would help as well.
Thanks for this suggestion, Misha. I’ve changed the headline to include Ben’s name, and I’m reviewing our transcript-publishing process to see how we be more clear in the future (e.g. by posting under authors’ names if they have an EA Forum account, as we do when we crosspost from a user’s blog).
An update: The previous name on this account was “Centre for Effective Altruism”. Since the account was originally made for the purpose of posting transcripts from EA Global, I’ve renamed it to “EA Global Transcripts” to avert further confusion.
Currently, co-authorship only produces karma for the “lead author”. The same is true on LessWrong, where most of the Forum’s code comes from, and they’re interested in changing that at some point (I submitted a Github request here), but it would require a more-than-trivial infrastructure change, so I don’t know how highly they’ll prioritize it.
I was confused by the headline. “Ben Garfinkel: How Sure are we about this AI Stuff?” would make it clear that it is not some kind of official statement from the CEA. Changing an author to EA Global or even to the co-authorship of EA Global and Ben Garfinkel would help as well.
+1, a friend of mine thought it was an official statement from CEA when he saw the headline, was thoroughly surprised and confused
Thanks for this suggestion, Misha. I’ve changed the headline to include Ben’s name, and I’m reviewing our transcript-publishing process to see how we be more clear in the future (e.g. by posting under authors’ names if they have an EA Forum account, as we do when we crosspost from a user’s blog).
An update: The previous name on this account was “Centre for Effective Altruism”. Since the account was originally made for the purpose of posting transcripts from EA Global, I’ve renamed it to “EA Global Transcripts” to avert further confusion.
How is karma allocated for co-authored posts?
Currently, co-authorship only produces karma for the “lead author”. The same is true on LessWrong, where most of the Forum’s code comes from, and they’re interested in changing that at some point (I submitted a Github request here), but it would require a more-than-trivial infrastructure change, so I don’t know how highly they’ll prioritize it.
Got it, thanks!