Implementing the same system here makes the risks correlated.
The point re correlation of risks is an interesting one — I’ve been modelling the tight coupling of the codebases as a way of reducing overall project risk (from a technical/maintenance perspective), but of course this does mean that we correlate any risks that are a function of the way the codebase itself works.
I’m not sure we’ll do much about that in the immediate term because our first priority should be to keep changes to the parent codebase as minimal as possible while we’re migrating everything from the existing server. However, adapting the forum to the specific needs of the EA community is something we’re definitely thinking about, and your comment highlights that there are good reasons to think that such feature differences have the important additional property of de-correlating the risks.
Feature request: integrate the content from the EA fora into LessWrong in a similar way as alignmentforum.org
That’s unfortunately not going to be possible in the same way. My understanding is that the Alignment Forum beta is essentially running on the same instance (server stack + database) as the LessWrong site, and some posts are just tagged as ‘Alignment Forum’ which makes them show up there. This means it’s easier to do things like have parallel karma scores, shared comments etc.
We see the EA Forum as a distinct entity from LW, and while we’re planning to work very closely with the LW team on this project (especially during the setup phase), we’d prefer to run the EA Forum as a separate, independent project. This also us the affordance to do things differently in the future if desired (e.g. have a different karma system, different homepage layout etc).
I think running it as a separate project from LW is generally good, and prioritizing move to the new system is right.
With the LW integration, ok, even if it is not technically possible to integrate in the alignment forum way, maybe there is some something-in-between way? (Although its probably more a question which to ask on the LW side.)
The point re correlation of risks is an interesting one — I’ve been modelling the tight coupling of the codebases as a way of reducing overall project risk (from a technical/maintenance perspective), but of course this does mean that we correlate any risks that are a function of the way the codebase itself works.
I’m not sure we’ll do much about that in the immediate term because our first priority should be to keep changes to the parent codebase as minimal as possible while we’re migrating everything from the existing server. However, adapting the forum to the specific needs of the EA community is something we’re definitely thinking about, and your comment highlights that there are good reasons to think that such feature differences have the important additional property of de-correlating the risks.
That’s unfortunately not going to be possible in the same way. My understanding is that the Alignment Forum beta is essentially running on the same instance (server stack + database) as the LessWrong site, and some posts are just tagged as ‘Alignment Forum’ which makes them show up there. This means it’s easier to do things like have parallel karma scores, shared comments etc.
We see the EA Forum as a distinct entity from LW, and while we’re planning to work very closely with the LW team on this project (especially during the setup phase), we’d prefer to run the EA Forum as a separate, independent project. This also us the affordance to do things differently in the future if desired (e.g. have a different karma system, different homepage layout etc).
Thanks for info!
I think running it as a separate project from LW is generally good, and prioritizing move to the new system is right.
With the LW integration, ok, even if it is not technically possible to integrate in the alignment forum way, maybe there is some something-in-between way? (Although its probably more a question which to ask on the LW side.)