Thanks and Congrats. I wonder if part of these effects (+ engagement, +headcount, +funding) could be temporary due to covid etc. - instead of a stable trend. Can we rule this hypothesis out?
Hey Ramiro, it does seem likely to me that part of the growth is exogenous. EA is growing rapidly as a community, and COVID also probably resulted in people spending more time online.
Some evidence that growth is at least partially endogenous to the Forum though includes that LessWrong and 80000hours.org didn’t grow very much over the past year, whereas we doubled.
Thanks and Congrats.
I wonder if part of these effects (+ engagement, +headcount, +funding) could be temporary due to covid etc. - instead of a stable trend. Can we rule this hypothesis out?
Hey Ramiro, it does seem likely to me that part of the growth is exogenous. EA is growing rapidly as a community, and COVID also probably resulted in people spending more time online.
Some evidence that growth is at least partially endogenous to the Forum though includes that LessWrong and 80000hours.org didn’t grow very much over the past year, whereas we doubled.