I like there being a centralised forum which attempts good epistemics.
Let’s compare to twitter, where incentives are towards controversy and views, I am glad that there is a nexus of EA comment on this forum.
I don’t know that a decentralised set of forums would have been able to reduce the presence of community discourse, and I think that has been healthy for us as a community.
In short, I am not sure that we are well integrated enough as a community (particularly at the speed of growth) to be decentralised fully across digital environments.
Oh I didn’t read Will as proposing multiple forums (although what he says is compatible with that proposal).
I thought he was saying that the name should better reflect how representative the forum is of EA thought at large. (The ‘decentralisation’ aspect being moving from the impression of ‘This forum is the main hub of all EA thought’ to ‘This forum is the main hub of Extremely Online EA thought’.)
I think the intention wasn’t “have lots of forums where EA topics are discussed”, so much as “don’t make it sound like the (in practice, one) forum is the only one that can be”.
I like there being a centralised forum which attempts good epistemics.
Let’s compare to twitter, where incentives are towards controversy and views, I am glad that there is a nexus of EA comment on this forum.
I don’t know that a decentralised set of forums would have been able to reduce the presence of community discourse, and I think that has been healthy for us as a community.
In short, I am not sure that we are well integrated enough as a community (particularly at the speed of growth) to be decentralised fully across digital environments.
Good name though
Oh I didn’t read Will as proposing multiple forums (although what he says is compatible with that proposal).
I thought he was saying that the name should better reflect how representative the forum is of EA thought at large. (The ‘decentralisation’ aspect being moving from the impression of ‘This forum is the main hub of all EA thought’ to ‘This forum is the main hub of Extremely Online EA thought’.)
I mean, I think it would have the effect of endorsing that, which I disprefer.
Though you make a good point about extremely onlineness.
I think the intention wasn’t “have lots of forums where EA topics are discussed”, so much as “don’t make it sound like the (in practice, one) forum is the only one that can be”.