Posts on the new Forum are split into two categories:
Frontpage posts are timeless content covering the ideas of effective altruism. They should be useful or interesting even to readers who only know the basic concepts of EA and aren’t very active within the community.
I’m a little confused about this description. I feel like intellectual progress often requires presupposition of fairly advanced ideas which build on each other, and which are therefore inaccessible to “readers who only know the basic concepts”. Suppose that I wrote a post outlining views on AI safety aimed at people who already know the basics of machine learning, or a post discussing a particular counter-argument to an unusual philosophical position. Would those not qualify as frontpage posts? If not, where would they go? And where do personal blogs fit into this taxonomy?
Hi Richard, I think you’re right that “basic concepts” is incorrect: I agree that it’s important to discuss advanced ideas which build off each other. We’d want both of the posts you mention to be frontpage posts. I’ll suggest an edit to Aaron.
By default, we’re moving all content to either Frontpage or Community, since we’re trying to have a slightly less active moderation policy than LessWrong. We might revisit this at some point. You can still click on a user’s name to see their personal feed of posts.
I’m a little confused about this description. I feel like intellectual progress often requires presupposition of fairly advanced ideas which build on each other, and which are therefore inaccessible to “readers who only know the basic concepts”. Suppose that I wrote a post outlining views on AI safety aimed at people who already know the basics of machine learning, or a post discussing a particular counter-argument to an unusual philosophical position. Would those not qualify as frontpage posts? If not, where would they go? And where do personal blogs fit into this taxonomy?
Hi Richard, I think you’re right that “basic concepts” is incorrect: I agree that it’s important to discuss advanced ideas which build off each other. We’d want both of the posts you mention to be frontpage posts. I’ll suggest an edit to Aaron.
By default, we’re moving all content to either Frontpage or Community, since we’re trying to have a slightly less active moderation policy than LessWrong. We might revisit this at some point. You can still click on a user’s name to see their personal feed of posts.
Thanks for this feedback, Richard! I’ve edited the post to better define the Frontpage category.