I’d be interested in seeing a version of the “Share of Posts by Topic” chart that (a) excluded “No Topic” and (b) condensed the categories. Would you be interested in making one and/or in making your data and scripts available so other people can build on this?
Yes, this roughly comes under the idea of the 4th bullet point at the end on ‘further data cleaning’. I think different people could obviously slice the data differently at what belongs in each topic (e.g. Is Longtermism it’s own category, or part of philosophy?), but it is a chart I’ll probably get around to creating.
As for sharing the data, absolutely! I’m happy to share it with anyone who asks really, as long as they understand the caveats to it I mention for interpretation’s sake. If you’d like to have a look, DM me and we can set something up :)
As for your earlier comment, it’s an interesting idea that the EA ‘core’ represents all parts of the philosophy, and that newer entrants have been more drawn in my the longtermism-side. I think a lot of people have the anecdotal experience that people often make their way to EA through the ‘neartermist’/global-health stuff, and often experience a ‘rug pull’ when introduced to xRisk/AI stuff. I’m not sure there’s good data on that, maybe when Rethink can share more from the latest EA survey?
I’d be interested in seeing a version of the “Share of Posts by Topic” chart that (a) excluded “No Topic” and (b) condensed the categories. Would you be interested in making one and/or in making your data and scripts available so other people can build on this?
Hi Jeff,
Yes, this roughly comes under the idea of the 4th bullet point at the end on ‘further data cleaning’. I think different people could obviously slice the data differently at what belongs in each topic (e.g. Is Longtermism it’s own category, or part of philosophy?), but it is a chart I’ll probably get around to creating.
As for sharing the data, absolutely! I’m happy to share it with anyone who asks really, as long as they understand the caveats to it I mention for interpretation’s sake. If you’d like to have a look, DM me and we can set something up :)
As for your earlier comment, it’s an interesting idea that the EA ‘core’ represents all parts of the philosophy, and that newer entrants have been more drawn in my the longtermism-side. I think a lot of people have the anecdotal experience that people often make their way to EA through the ‘neartermist’/global-health stuff, and often experience a ‘rug pull’ when introduced to xRisk/AI stuff. I’m not sure there’s good data on that, maybe when Rethink can share more from the latest EA survey?
Done!
(Is there a reason not to just push it publicly to github instead of having people ask you?)