I think it’s great to think about what projects should maybe exist and then pitch them! Kudos to you for doing that; it seems potentially one of the highest-value activities on the Forum.
I think that information flows are really important, and in principle projects like this could be really high-value already in the world today. Moreover I agree that the general area is likely to increase in importance as the impacts of language models are more widely felt. But details are going to matter a lot, and I’m left scratching my head a bit over this:
When I read the specific pitch here, I think I don’t think that I have a clear enough picture of what kind of topics this is going to cover, and what audiences it will serve
Is it best thought of like “Wikipedia, but for news”? Something more EA-focused than that?
You talk about the importance of having things that are just news, not advocacy
But it also sounds like most of what you’re imagining is links to other sources of information
Most news sources at the moment come with some degree of opinionated views slanting how they’re presented; presumably you’re not going to exclude anything being linked just because of that?
If this impartiality is really important, would it maybe be better to more just collect the bare facts, rather than link to external articles?
This could be more efficient in information-per-word, as well as reducing spin
Hi, the general model for the platform would be something akin to a web-based news site (e.g. WIRED, Vox, etc.) and a subreddit combined. There’s the human run in depth coverage part, where the work should be done to increase impartiality, but there’s also the linklist part which allows community members to “float” content they find interesting without getting bogged down in writing it up, so to speak. The links shared will be opinionated, definitely, but that should be mitigated by the human coverage, and the limitations of human coverage (speed of updates, long reading time) can hopefully be compensated by the linklist/subreddit portion of the site.
I think it’s great to think about what projects should maybe exist and then pitch them! Kudos to you for doing that; it seems potentially one of the highest-value activities on the Forum.
I think that information flows are really important, and in principle projects like this could be really high-value already in the world today. Moreover I agree that the general area is likely to increase in importance as the impacts of language models are more widely felt. But details are going to matter a lot, and I’m left scratching my head a bit over this:
When I read the specific pitch here, I think I don’t think that I have a clear enough picture of what kind of topics this is going to cover, and what audiences it will serve
Is it best thought of like “Wikipedia, but for news”? Something more EA-focused than that?
You talk about the importance of having things that are just news, not advocacy
But it also sounds like most of what you’re imagining is links to other sources of information
Most news sources at the moment come with some degree of opinionated views slanting how they’re presented; presumably you’re not going to exclude anything being linked just because of that?
If this impartiality is really important, would it maybe be better to more just collect the bare facts, rather than link to external articles?
This could be more efficient in information-per-word, as well as reducing spin
Hi, the general model for the platform would be something akin to a web-based news site (e.g. WIRED, Vox, etc.) and a subreddit combined. There’s the human run in depth coverage part, where the work should be done to increase impartiality, but there’s also the linklist part which allows community members to “float” content they find interesting without getting bogged down in writing it up, so to speak. The links shared will be opinionated, definitely, but that should be mitigated by the human coverage, and the limitations of human coverage (speed of updates, long reading time) can hopefully be compensated by the linklist/subreddit portion of the site.