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.
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.