Could you say more about the other sources you are thinking of as better locations? Are they aggregators or are you just thinking about the long tail of e.g. blogs hosted by individual organizations or academic journals?
Crossposting to the Forum is one obvious way that externally hosted content could get here, though it’s inelegant.
Yeah, I think high-quality content is spread across many blogs. But not terribly hard to find—a lot of it is in blog posts that can be seen by following a hundred Twitter accounts.
I agree crossposting or linkposting is one way to gather content. I guess that’s kind-of what subreddits/hackernews/Twitter all do, but those platforms are more-designed for that purpose. Not sure what’s the best solution.
What are some examples of blog content you think is at least as good as a very good Forum post, is potentially useful to EAs, and wasn’t crossposted to the Forum?
Ideally, if I find content like that, I’d like to crosspost it for people to read here, rather than hoping that Forum readers also start reading a bunch of different blogs as a result of seeing them in Prize writeups. I think your initial comment is a good argument for more crossposting, or perhaps having a “suggest crosspost” box people can use to send me URLs of things they’d like posted here (if they want to save time on formatting and such).
I don’t think rewarding content outside the Forum is necessarily “a lot more valuable” unless doing so gets those authors to write more EA-friendly content and/or use the Forum more. To the extent that the Prize is an incentive rather than just a reward, it seems like a better incentive to offer more predictable rewards to people who submit their writing to a single website rather than rewarding people from all over the web.
To draw a comparison: If a literary journal pays people who submit great stories to the journal, is that going to incentivize more good short-fiction writing than going to authors who don’t know about the journal and giving them money for things they wrote elsewhere? I don’t think the answer is obvious, and I’d lean toward the former being more useful.
Could you say more about the other sources you are thinking of as better locations? Are they aggregators or are you just thinking about the long tail of e.g. blogs hosted by individual organizations or academic journals?
Crossposting to the Forum is one obvious way that externally hosted content could get here, though it’s inelegant.
Yeah, I think high-quality content is spread across many blogs. But not terribly hard to find—a lot of it is in blog posts that can be seen by following a hundred Twitter accounts.
I agree crossposting or linkposting is one way to gather content. I guess that’s kind-of what subreddits/hackernews/Twitter all do, but those platforms are more-designed for that purpose. Not sure what’s the best solution.
What are some examples of blog content you think is at least as good as a very good Forum post, is potentially useful to EAs, and wasn’t crossposted to the Forum?
Ideally, if I find content like that, I’d like to crosspost it for people to read here, rather than hoping that Forum readers also start reading a bunch of different blogs as a result of seeing them in Prize writeups. I think your initial comment is a good argument for more crossposting, or perhaps having a “suggest crosspost” box people can use to send me URLs of things they’d like posted here (if they want to save time on formatting and such).
I don’t think rewarding content outside the Forum is necessarily “a lot more valuable” unless doing so gets those authors to write more EA-friendly content and/or use the Forum more. To the extent that the Prize is an incentive rather than just a reward, it seems like a better incentive to offer more predictable rewards to people who submit their writing to a single website rather than rewarding people from all over the web.
To draw a comparison: If a literary journal pays people who submit great stories to the journal, is that going to incentivize more good short-fiction writing than going to authors who don’t know about the journal and giving them money for things they wrote elsewhere? I don’t think the answer is obvious, and I’d lean toward the former being more useful.
In the last month or so, here are a bunch of things I’ve enjoyed reading that weren’t on the forum:
Blogs:
http://www.paulgraham.com/orth.html
https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-banning-all-party-members-is-stupid.html
https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-world-that-twitter-made.html
https://stefanfschubert.com/blog/2020/7/24/the-focus-of-collective-attention-and-the-long-run-future
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N6vZEnCn6A95Xn39p/are-we-in-an-ai-overhang
News (opinion):
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-29/china-s-xi-jinping-could-make-same-mistakes-as-kaiser-wilhelm-ii?fbclid=IwAR3xWbe7IcvfVul4tqv6a1psRU8gLAjnyamL0wysI8fpBqIT3OPvoKRPO7A
Other:
https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
http://www.usrsb.in/three-gorges-dam-2020.html
https://theprecipice.com/quotations