Can you expand a bit about the relevance of this to EA? Do you think that better open communication is a worthy cause by itself, or that this has relevance to infohazard policies, or perhaps something else?
Very fair question. I’m particularly considering the issue for community discussions around EA. There’s a fair EA Twitter presence now and I think we’re starting to see some negative impacts of this. (Especially around hot issues like social justice.)
I was considering posting here or LessWrong and thought that the community here is typically more engaged with other public online discussion.
That said, if someone has ideas to address the issue on a larger scale, I could imagine that being an interesting area. (Communication as a cause area)
I myself am doing a broad survey of things useful for collective epistemics, so this would also fall within that.
As a datapoint, the issues Ozzie raises feel quite relevant to issues I find myself needing to think about where it comes to different communities engaging with Xrisk-related issues and different aspects of our (an xrisk/gcr centre’s) work—especially when it comes to different communities with different epistemic and communication norms—so I find it relevant and helpful in that sense.
Can you expand a bit about the relevance of this to EA? Do you think that better open communication is a worthy cause by itself, or that this has relevance to infohazard policies, or perhaps something else?
Very fair question. I’m particularly considering the issue for community discussions around EA. There’s a fair EA Twitter presence now and I think we’re starting to see some negative impacts of this. (Especially around hot issues like social justice.)
I was considering posting here or LessWrong and thought that the community here is typically more engaged with other public online discussion.
That said, if someone has ideas to address the issue on a larger scale, I could imagine that being an interesting area. (Communication as a cause area)
I myself am doing a broad survey of things useful for collective epistemics, so this would also fall within that.
As a datapoint, the issues Ozzie raises feel quite relevant to issues I find myself needing to think about where it comes to different communities engaging with Xrisk-related issues and different aspects of our (an xrisk/gcr centre’s) work—especially when it comes to different communities with different epistemic and communication norms—so I find it relevant and helpful in that sense.