they can just describe to ChatGPT or Claude what they want to know and ask the bot to search the EA Forum and other EA-related websites for info.
I feel like you’ve written a dozen posts at this point explaining why this isn’t a good idea. LLM’s are still very unreliable, the best way to find out what people in EA believe is to ask.
With regards to the ranking of charities, I think it would be totally fine if there were 15 different versions rankings out there. It would allow people to get a feel for what people with different worldviews value and agree or disagree on. I think this would be preferable to having just one “official” ranking, as there’s no way to take into account massive worldview differences into that.
But let’s imagine that I am a newly minted hundred millionaire. If there were Qualy, a well trusted LLM that would link to pages in the EA corpus and answer questions, I might chat to it a bit?
I agree chatbots are not to be trusted to do research or analysis, but I was imagining someone using a chatbot as a search engine, to just get a list of charities that they could then read about.
I think 15 different lists or rankings or aggregations would be fine too.
If a millionaire asked me right now for a big list of EA-related charities, I would give them the donation election list. And if they wanted to know the EA community’s ranking, I guess I would show them the results of the donation election. (Although I think those are hidden for the moment and we’re waiting on an announcement post.) Edit: the results are now here, although there isn’t a ranking beyond the top 3.
Maybe a bunch of people should write their own personal rankings.
Someone should make a Tier List template for EA charities. Something like this:
I feel like you’ve written a dozen posts at this point explaining why this isn’t a good idea. LLM’s are still very unreliable, the best way to find out what people in EA believe is to ask.
With regards to the ranking of charities, I think it would be totally fine if there were 15 different versions rankings out there. It would allow people to get a feel for what people with different worldviews value and agree or disagree on. I think this would be preferable to having just one “official” ranking, as there’s no way to take into account massive worldview differences into that.
I was responding to this part:
I agree chatbots are not to be trusted to do research or analysis, but I was imagining someone using a chatbot as a search engine, to just get a list of charities that they could then read about.
I think 15 different lists or rankings or aggregations would be fine too.
If a millionaire asked me right now for a big list of EA-related charities, I would give them the donation election list. And if they wanted to know the EA community’s ranking, I guess I would show them the results of the donation election. (Although I think those are hidden for the moment and we’re waiting on an announcement post.) Edit: the results are now here, although there isn’t a ranking beyond the top 3.
Maybe a bunch of people should write their own personal rankings.
Someone should make a Tier List template for EA charities. Something like this:
Yeah I’m making something like that :)