Should we be making it so difficult for users with an EA forum account to make updates to the forum wikis?
I imagine the platform vision for the EA forum is to be the âWikipedia for do-goodersâ and make it useful as a resource for people working out the best ways to do good. For example, when you google âEffective Altruism AI Safetyâ on incognito modeâthe first result is the forum topic on AI safety: AI safetyâEA Forum (effectivealtruism.org)
I was chatting to @Rusheb about this who has spent the last year upskilling to transition into AI Safety from software development. He had some great ideas for links (ie. new 80k guides, site that had links for newbies or people making the transition from software engineering)
Ideally someone who had this experience and opinions on what would be useful on a landing page for AI Safety should be able to suggest this on the wiki page (like you can do on Wikipedia with the caveat that you can be overruled). However, he doesnât have the forum karma to do that and the tooltip explaining that was unclear on how to get the karma to do it.
I have the forum karma to do it but I donât think I should get the creditâI didnât have the AI safety knowledgeâhe did. In this scenario, the forum has lost out on some free improvements to its wiki plus an engaged user who would feel âbought inâ. Is there a way to âlend himâ my karma?
I got it from posting about EA Taskmaster which shouldnât make me an authority on AI Safety.
Hmmm Iâm not being as prescriptive as that. Maybe there is a better solution to this specific problemâmaybe requiring someone with higher karma to confirm the suggestion? (original person gets the credit)
This is similar to how StackOverflow /â StackExchange works, I think â any user can propose an edit (or thereâs some very low reputation threshold, I forget) but if youâre below some reputation bar then your edit wonât be published until reviewed by someone else.
Making this system work well though probably requires higher-karma users having a way of finding out about pending edits.
See also the Payroll Giving (UK) or GAYEâEA Forum (effectivealtruism.org) page which it is the top google result for âEffective Altruism Payroll Givingâ. It made sense for me to update since I am an accountant and have experience trying to get this done at my workplace.
Did I need to make a post about something unrelated to do that?
Should we be making it so difficult for users with an EA forum account to make updates to the forum wikis?
I imagine the platform vision for the EA forum is to be the âWikipedia for do-goodersâ and make it useful as a resource for people working out the best ways to do good. For example, when you google âEffective Altruism AI Safetyâ on incognito modeâthe first result is the forum topic on AI safety: AI safetyâEA Forum (effectivealtruism.org)
I was chatting to @Rusheb about this who has spent the last year upskilling to transition into AI Safety from software development. He had some great ideas for links (ie. new 80k guides, site that had links for newbies or people making the transition from software engineering)
Ideally someone who had this experience and opinions on what would be useful on a landing page for AI Safety should be able to suggest this on the wiki page (like you can do on Wikipedia with the caveat that you can be overruled). However, he doesnât have the forum karma to do that and the tooltip explaining that was unclear on how to get the karma to do it.
I have the forum karma to do it but I donât think I should get the creditâI didnât have the AI safety knowledgeâhe did. In this scenario, the forum has lost out on some free improvements to its wiki plus an engaged user who would feel âbought inâ. Is there a way to âlend himâ my karma?
I got it from posting about EA Taskmaster which shouldnât make me an authority on AI Safety.
Is your concrete suggestion/âask âget rid of the karma requirement?â
Hmmm Iâm not being as prescriptive as that. Maybe there is a better solution to this specific problemâmaybe requiring someone with higher karma to confirm the suggestion? (original person gets the credit)
This is similar to how StackOverflow /â StackExchange works, I think â any user can propose an edit (or thereâs some very low reputation threshold, I forget) but if youâre below some reputation bar then your edit wonât be published until reviewed by someone else.
Making this system work well though probably requires higher-karma users having a way of finding out about pending edits.
See also the Payroll Giving (UK) or GAYEâEA Forum (effectivealtruism.org) page which it is the top google result for âEffective Altruism Payroll Givingâ. It made sense for me to update since I am an accountant and have experience trying to get this done at my workplace.
Did I need to make a post about something unrelated to do that?