Tom Inglesby on nCoV response is one recent example from just the last few days. I’ve generally known Stefan Schubert, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Julia Galef, and others to make very insightful comments there. I’m sure there are very many other examples.
Generally speaking, though, the philosophy would be to go to the platforms that top contributors are actually using, and offer our services there, rather than trying to push them onto ours, or at least to complement the latter with the former.
I agree with this philosophy, but remain unsure about the extent to which strong material appears on various platforms (I sometimes do reach out to people who have written good blog posts or Facebook posts to send my regards and invite them to cross-post; this is a big part of Ben Kuhn’s recent posts have appeared on the Forum, and one of those did win a prize).
Aside from 1000-person-plus groups like “Effective Altruism” and “EA Hangout”, are there any Facebook groups that you think regularly feature strong contributions? (I’ve seen plenty of good posts come out of smaller groups, but given the sheer number of groups, I doubt that the list of those I check includes everything it should.)
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I follow all the Twitter accounts you mentioned. While I can’t think of recent top-level Tweets from those accounts that feel like good Prize candidates, I think the Tom Inglesby thread is great!
One benefit of the Forum Prize is that it (ideally) incentivizes people to come and post things on the Forum, and to put more effort into producing really strong posts. It also reaches people who deliberately worked to contribute to the community. If someone like Tom Inglesby was suddenly offered, say, $200 for writing a great Twitter thread, it’s very unclear to me whether this would lead to any change in his behavior (and it might come across as very odd). Maybe not including any money, but simply cross-posting the thread and granting some kind of honorary award, could be better.
Another benefit: The Forum is centralized, and it’s easy for judges to see every post. If someone wants to Tweet about EA and they aren’t already a central figure, we might have a hard time finding their material (and we’re much more likely to spot, by happenstance, posts made by people who have lots of followers).
That said, there’s merit to thinking about ways we can reach out to send strong complimentary signals to people who produce EA-relevant things even if they’re unaware of the movement’s existence. Thanks for these suggestions!
Tom Inglesby on nCoV response is one recent example from just the last few days. I’ve generally known Stefan Schubert, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Julia Galef, and others to make very insightful comments there. I’m sure there are very many other examples.
Generally speaking, though, the philosophy would be to go to the platforms that top contributors are actually using, and offer our services there, rather than trying to push them onto ours, or at least to complement the latter with the former.
I agree with this philosophy, but remain unsure about the extent to which strong material appears on various platforms (I sometimes do reach out to people who have written good blog posts or Facebook posts to send my regards and invite them to cross-post; this is a big part of Ben Kuhn’s recent posts have appeared on the Forum, and one of those did win a prize).
Aside from 1000-person-plus groups like “Effective Altruism” and “EA Hangout”, are there any Facebook groups that you think regularly feature strong contributions? (I’ve seen plenty of good posts come out of smaller groups, but given the sheer number of groups, I doubt that the list of those I check includes everything it should.)
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I follow all the Twitter accounts you mentioned. While I can’t think of recent top-level Tweets from those accounts that feel like good Prize candidates, I think the Tom Inglesby thread is great!
One benefit of the Forum Prize is that it (ideally) incentivizes people to come and post things on the Forum, and to put more effort into producing really strong posts. It also reaches people who deliberately worked to contribute to the community. If someone like Tom Inglesby was suddenly offered, say, $200 for writing a great Twitter thread, it’s very unclear to me whether this would lead to any change in his behavior (and it might come across as very odd). Maybe not including any money, but simply cross-posting the thread and granting some kind of honorary award, could be better.
Another benefit: The Forum is centralized, and it’s easy for judges to see every post. If someone wants to Tweet about EA and they aren’t already a central figure, we might have a hard time finding their material (and we’re much more likely to spot, by happenstance, posts made by people who have lots of followers).
That said, there’s merit to thinking about ways we can reach out to send strong complimentary signals to people who produce EA-relevant things even if they’re unaware of the movement’s existence. Thanks for these suggestions!