Hi Jacy, is it your experience with running this interview that continuing the EA Interview Series as is is the best way to get to know various members of the community, or do you think it’s more effective to run AMAs on the EA Forum, as Ryan Carey has done in the past?
I’m not sure which is better generally. I think an interview takes less effort from the ‘recipient’ and from the community, which is a pretty important advantage. People also might see it as higher quality when they it in their news feed, which would lead to more engagement. (AMAs on smaller forums like this one, people probably expect them to not have great questions or to have to sift through a lot of uninteresting stuff.)
That’s a good point. I think the only AMA on the EA Forum which really felt like it matched the expectation AMAs typically have is the AMA Nate Saores did a few months ago. Much of that was how it was framed, the fact MIRI was doing something big at the time (like a fundraiser or some such), and that 2015 was a big year for A.I. safety, so people had a lot more questions for Nate than they otherwise would. If I recally correctly, Ryan also made more of an effort to promote it and remind folks when and that it was happening and to have questions prepared. I can ask him what he did during Nate’s AMA that was different and make it work better, and then compare that to the sort of outcomes we would expect from the current style of the EA Interview series.
Hi Jacy, is it your experience with running this interview that continuing the EA Interview Series as is is the best way to get to know various members of the community, or do you think it’s more effective to run AMAs on the EA Forum, as Ryan Carey has done in the past?
I’m not sure which is better generally. I think an interview takes less effort from the ‘recipient’ and from the community, which is a pretty important advantage. People also might see it as higher quality when they it in their news feed, which would lead to more engagement. (AMAs on smaller forums like this one, people probably expect them to not have great questions or to have to sift through a lot of uninteresting stuff.)
That’s a good point. I think the only AMA on the EA Forum which really felt like it matched the expectation AMAs typically have is the AMA Nate Saores did a few months ago. Much of that was how it was framed, the fact MIRI was doing something big at the time (like a fundraiser or some such), and that 2015 was a big year for A.I. safety, so people had a lot more questions for Nate than they otherwise would. If I recally correctly, Ryan also made more of an effort to promote it and remind folks when and that it was happening and to have questions prepared. I can ask him what he did during Nate’s AMA that was different and make it work better, and then compare that to the sort of outcomes we would expect from the current style of the EA Interview series.