Great post! I don’t have fully formed view of the consequences of EA’s increasing focus on longtermism, but I do think it was important that we notice and discuss these trends.
I actually spent some of my last saturday categorising all EA-forum posts by their cause-area[1], and am planning on spending my next saturday making a few graphs over any trends I can spot on the forum.
The reason I wanted to do this is exactly because I had an inclination that global poverty posts were getting comparatively less engagement than it used to, and was wondering whether this was actually the case or just my imagination.
Great post! I don’t have fully formed view of the consequences of EA’s increasing focus on longtermism, but I do think it was important that we notice and discuss these trends.
I actually spent some of my last saturday categorising all EA-forum posts by their cause-area[1], and am planning on spending my next saturday making a few graphs over any trends I can spot on the forum.
The reason I wanted to do this is exactly because I had an inclination that global poverty posts were getting comparatively less engagement than it used to, and was wondering whether this was actually the case or just my imagination.
Just now put the code I’ve written so far on github in case else wants to contribute or do something similar: https://github.com/MperorM/ea-forum-analysis
Superb work from you! You should get in touch with the person who runs this and put it on https://www.effectivealtruismdata.com/