I don’t comment or post much on the EA forum because the quality of discourse on the EA Forum typically seems mediocre at best. This is especially true for x-risk.
The whole manifund debacle has left me quite demotivated. It really sucks that people are more interested debating contentious community drama, than seemingly anything else this forum has to offer.
Could you share a few examples of what you consider good quality EA Forum posts? Do you think the content linked on the EA Forum Digest also “typically seems mediocre at best”?
I don’t comment or post much on the EA forum because the quality of discourse on the EA Forum typically seems mediocre at best. This is especially true for x-risk.
I think this has been true for a while.
Any ideas for what we can do to improve it?
The whole manifund debacle has left me quite demotivated. It really sucks that people are more interested debating contentious community drama, than seemingly anything else this forum has to offer.
Thanks for the reminder, definitely got sucked in too much myself....
Will get back to commenting more on GHD posts and write another of my own soon!
What’s the “whole manifund debacle”? People complaining about Curtis Yarvin or something?
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/34pz6ni3muwPnenLS/why-so-many-racists-at-manifest
I think there signal vs noise tradeoffs, so I’m naively tempted to retreat toward more exclusivity.
This poses costs of its own, so maybe I’d be in favor of differentiation (some more and some less exclusive version).
Low confidence in this being good overall.
Hi Ryan,
Could you share a few examples of what you consider good quality EA Forum posts? Do you think the content linked on the EA Forum Digest also “typically seems mediocre at best”?