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.
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