Discussion norms

TagLast edit: 19 May 2022 18:32 UTC by Leo

The discussion norms tag covers posts that suggest or promote norms around how people ought to hold discussions within the effective altruism community.

Guide to norms on the Forum

Lizka28 Apr 2022 13:28 UTC

59 points

5 comments15 min readEA link

Epistemic Legibility

Elizabeth21 Mar 2022 19:18 UTC

73 points

1 comment20 min readEA link

Reasoning Transparency

Lizka28 Sep 2022 12:22 UTC

117 points

8 comments17 min readEA link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Why “scout mindset” is crucial to good judgment (Julia Galef)

EA Handbook4 Apr 2016 7:00 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Suggestions for Online EA Discussion Norms

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸24 Sep 2020 1:42 UTC

66 points

16 comments6 min readEA link

Productive criticism: running a draft past the people you’re criticizing

Lizka15 Jun 2023 15:57 UTC

38 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

Please tag your posts!

Emrik19 Aug 2022 10:05 UTC

37 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Posting More Better: Social Media Rules of Thumb

Nathan Young3 May 2022 17:06 UTC

86 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

For Better Commenting, Avoid PONDS

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2021 0:29 UTC

68 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

EA should taboo “EA should”

Lizka29 Mar 2022 9:07 UTC

210 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

You don’t have to respond to every comment

Lizka20 Jun 2022 16:58 UTC

128 points

18 comments3 min readEA link

Against “longtermist” as an identity

Lizka13 May 2022 19:17 UTC

166 points

23 comments6 min readEA link

Productive criticism: what could help?

Lizka13 Jun 2023 14:56 UTC

38 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Please don’t vote brigade

Lizka5 May 2023 8:56 UTC

304 points

18 comments3 min readEA link

Concerns with ACE’s Recent Behavior

Hypatia17 Apr 2021 17:00 UTC

274 points

149 comments11 min readEA link

A Forum post can be short

Lizka22 Mar 2022 11:13 UTC

189 points

27 comments1 min readEA link

When reporting AI timelines, be clear who you’re deferring to

Sam Clarke10 Oct 2022 14:24 UTC

120 points

20 comments1 min readEA link

Longtermist (especially x-risk) terminology has biasing assumptions

Arepo30 Oct 2022 16:26 UTC

70 points

13 comments7 min readEA link

The extraordinary value of ordinary norms

EmilyTench8 Nov 2017 17:34 UTC

42 points

7 comments12 min readEA link

Thinking of Convenience as an Economic Term

Ozzie Gooen5 May 2023 19:09 UTC

28 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

In favor of steelmanning

JP Addison🔸1 May 2023 15:33 UTC

27 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

Some Thoughts on Public Discourse

Holden Karnofsky23 Feb 2017 17:29 UTC

71 points

37 comments12 min readEA link

Requests on the Forum

EdoArad22 Dec 2020 10:42 UTC

46 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Supportive Scepticism

Jess_Whittlestone18 Sep 2014 14:02 UTC

75 points

21 comments4 min readEA link

LW4EA: Philosophical Landmines

Jeremy26 Apr 2022 2:53 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Consider Changing Your Forum Username to Your Real Name

Patrick Gruban 🔸26 Apr 2022 17:07 UTC

68 points

30 comments1 min readEA link

The way EA uses “legible” is not very legible

Sailboat15 Jul 2023 17:14 UTC

4 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

The Onion Test for Personal and Institutional Honesty

ChanaMessinger27 Sep 2022 15:26 UTC

57 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Six Ways To Get Along With People Who Are Totally Wrong*

Robert_Wiblin24 Feb 2015 12:41 UTC

170 points

29 comments5 min readEA link

Using the “executive summary” style: writing that respects your reader’s time

deep22 Jul 2022 0:17 UTC

198 points

12 comments8 min readEA link

Giving and receiving feedback

Max_Daniel7 Sep 2020 7:24 UTC

94 points

7 comments8 min readEA link

Networking for Nerds [linkpost]

Evie6 Jul 2022 13:34 UTC

47 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

(benjaminreinhardt.com)

Butterfly Ideas

Elizabeth23 Mar 2022 17:52 UTC

71 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

You should write on the EA Forum

Lizka29 Apr 2022 14:55 UTC

73 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

Independent impressions

MichaelA🔸26 Sep 2021 18:43 UTC

155 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Considering Considerateness: Why communities of do-gooders should be exceptionally considerate

Stefan_Schubert31 May 2017 22:41 UTC

58 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

Brainstorming ways to make EA safer and more inclusive

richard_ngo15 Nov 2022 11:14 UTC

149 points

97 comments1 min readEA link

Towards More Modular Value/Impact Estimates

Charlie_Guthmann3 Nov 2022 19:33 UTC

17 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Responsible Transparency Consumption

Jeff Kaufman 🔸11 Mar 2022 21:34 UTC

44 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Suggestion: EAs should post more summaries and collections

MichaelA🔸9 Mar 2020 10:04 UTC

76 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Exporting EA discussion norms

Eevee🔹1 Jun 2021 13:35 UTC

24 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] [Meta] Is it legitimate to ask people to upvote posts on this forum?

Ofer29 Jun 2021 7:42 UTC

27 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Features that make a report especially helpful to me

lukeprog12 Apr 2022 13:57 UTC

107 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] What should the norms around privacy and evaluation in the EA community be?

NunoSempere16 Jun 2021 17:31 UTC

66 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

Consider Not Changing Your Forum Username to Your Real Name

electroswing28 Apr 2022 1:42 UTC

76 points

17 comments3 min readEA link

Socrates Café: A Different Approach to Discussion

Ryan Adler4 Jun 2022 23:34 UTC

27 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

Resource for criticisms and red teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC

60 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Introducing CEA’s Guiding Principles

William_MacAskill8 Mar 2017 1:57 UTC

48 points

43 comments5 min readEA link

Avoiding Munich’s Mistakes: Advice for CEA and Local Groups

Larks14 Oct 2020 17:08 UTC

186 points

80 comments40 min readEA link

Terms to clarify when discussing EA

Peter444413 Jun 2022 10:46 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What community norm would you most like to see added, removed or acknolwedged within EA?

Nathan Young2 Nov 2021 11:59 UTC

20 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

The value of content density

Joey🔸20 Jul 2022 15:34 UTC

207 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

Why defensive writing is bad for community epistemics

Emrik8 Oct 2022 23:38 UTC

76 points

28 comments8 min readEA link

Perils of optimizing in social contexts

Owen Cotton-Barratt16 Jun 2022 17:23 UTC

124 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

If you don’t have good evidence one thing is better than another, don’t pretend you do

Robert_Wiblin21 Dec 2015 19:19 UTC

49 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

The Conversations We Make Space For

Severin28 Jul 2022 21:36 UTC

22 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

What does ‘one dollar of value’ mean?

Aaron Bergman7 Jun 2022 3:00 UTC

48 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Forum user manual

Lizka28 Apr 2022 14:05 UTC

42 points

9 comments22 min readEA link

Politics is far too meta

RobBensinger17 Mar 2021 23:57 UTC

58 points

9 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Examples of someone admitting an error or changing a key conclusion

Lizka27 Jun 2022 15:37 UTC

47 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

Epistemic status: an explainer and some thoughts

Lizka31 Aug 2022 13:59 UTC

59 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

[UNENDORSED] Reward Long Content

niplav25 Apr 2022 10:00 UTC

42 points

9 comments11 min readEA link

Doing 1-on-1s Better—EAG Tips Part II

kuhanj24 Mar 2022 11:22 UTC

57 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

Link-posting is an act of community service

Lizka16 May 2022 18:25 UTC

59 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

If you like a post, tell the author!

Aaron Gertler 🔸6 Oct 2020 17:26 UTC

141 points

19 comments2 min readEA link

Improve/promote a post in situ.

david_reinstein22 Apr 2022 22:03 UTC

32 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Supportive scepticism in practice

Michelle_Hutchinson15 Jan 2015 16:35 UTC

41 points

23 comments8 min readEA link

Some benefits and risks of failure transparency

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸27 Mar 2022 2:09 UTC

53 points

3 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] How should EA Forum readers vote on comments/posts/tags?

Vasco Grilo🔸9 Dec 2022 11:30 UTC

9 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Improving EA with More, Better Debates | Recorded Discussion between Elliot and Emrik

Elliot Temple22 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC

17 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

(Crosspost) A Response To “Making Discussions In EA Groups Inclusive”

Aaron Gertler 🔸16 May 2019 7:00 UTC

16 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Editing Advice for EA Forum Users

Justis22 Apr 2022 2:45 UTC

106 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

Politics on the EA Forum

Aaron Gertler 🔸7 Aug 2020 7:37 UTC

98 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Keeping the effective altruist movement welcoming

Owen Cotton-Barratt7 Feb 2014 1:21 UTC

17 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Curated conversations with brilliant effective altruists

spencerg11 Apr 2022 15:32 UTC

37 points

0 comments22 min readEA link

[Question] How to make people appreciate asynchronous written communication more?

konrad10 Mar 2021 19:53 UTC

17 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Use resilience, instead of imprecision, to communicate uncertainty

Gregory Lewis🔸18 Jul 2020 12:09 UTC

103 points

34 comments7 min readEA link

Thinking about how we respond to criticisms of EA

weeatquince19 Aug 2016 9:42 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

The Folly of “EAs Should”

Davidmanheim6 Jan 2021 7:04 UTC

75 points

47 comments4 min readEA link

Deferring

Owen Cotton-Barratt12 May 2022 23:44 UTC

101 points

42 comments11 min readEA link

Native languages in the EA community (and issues with assessing promisingness)

Lizka27 Dec 2021 2:01 UTC

72 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

Winners of the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC

226 points

41 comments19 min readEA link

Draft Amnesty Day: an event we might run on the Forum

Lizka31 Oct 2022 16:48 UTC

82 points

20 comments2 min readEA link

The Forum should consider anonymizing names

Charlie_Guthmann23 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC

10 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What improvements should be made to improve EA discussion on heated topics?

Ozzie Gooen16 Jan 2023 20:11 UTC

54 points

35 comments1 min readEA link

Spreading messages to help with the most important century

Holden Karnofsky25 Jan 2023 20:35 UTC

128 points

21 comments18 min readEA link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Don’t Call It AI Alignment

Gil20 Feb 2023 5:27 UTC

16 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

Use of “I’d bet” on the EA Forum is mostly metaphorical

NunoSempere7 Mar 2023 23:33 UTC

17 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(nunosempere.com)

Yes/No Debate (Shenanigans Workshop)

Milli🔸7 Mar 2023 17:30 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Disentangling Some Important Forecasting Concepts and Terms

Marcel D25 Jun 2023 17:31 UTC

16 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

How we can make it easier to change your mind about cause areas

ClaireZabel11 Aug 2015 6:21 UTC

78 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

Dialogue: What is the optimal frontier for due diligence?

Ruby8 Sep 2023 18:28 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

“EA” is too vague: let’s be more specific

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸14 Apr 2023 15:43 UTC

40 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Silly idea to enhance List representation accuracy

Phib24 Apr 2023 0:30 UTC

7 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Transparency for improving weird feelings around community building

ChanaMessinger30 Sep 2022 15:09 UTC

70 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

A request to keep pessimistic AI posts actionable.

tcelferact11 May 2023 15:35 UTC

27 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Probably tell your friends when they make big mistakes

Chi1 Jun 2023 14:30 UTC

98 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

Notes on how I want to handle criticism

Lizka8 Jun 2023 11:47 UTC

63 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Strawmen, steelmen, and mithrilmen: getting the principle of charity right

MichaelPlant9 Jun 2023 13:02 UTC

89 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

Why UFOs matter

Magnus Vinding21 Jun 2024 10:53 UTC

31 points

14 comments10 min readEA link

Focusing on bad criticism is dangerous to your epistemics

Lizka15 Mar 2024 23:57 UTC

70 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

Pre-announcing a contest for critiques and red teaming

Lizka25 Mar 2022 11:52 UTC

173 points

27 comments2 min readEA link

How to criticise Effective Altruism

Toby Tremlett🔹3 Jun 2021 11:24 UTC

30 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How to discuss topics that are emotionally loaded?

vin2 Feb 2021 18:08 UTC

17 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

Good practices for changing minds

Nikola7 Apr 2022 15:20 UTC

20 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

How ForumMagnum builds communities of inquiry

Jim Fisher4 Sep 2023 20:20 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

What I learnt from twenty 1:1s at EAGxOxford

Ben Williamson28 Mar 2022 14:18 UTC

89 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] How Is EA Rational?

Elliot Temple13 Oct 2022 16:21 UTC

1 point

25 comments1 min readEA link

Style Writing Prejudice At EA

Trev Prew4 Sep 2022 8:06 UTC

−5 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

The Term “EA-Aligned” Carries Baggage

Evan_Gaensbauer15 Jul 2022 1:57 UTC

7 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Should the forum have posts (or comments) only viewable by logged-in forum members

Jeremy4 Apr 2022 17:40 UTC

21 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

4 Ways to Give Feedback to Job or Grant Applicants

Kirsten5 Aug 2022 15:38 UTC

64 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Making discussions in EA groups inclusive

EAs for Inclusion4 Mar 2019 11:30 UTC

38 points

36 comments14 min readEA link

Five recommendations for better political discourse

Tobias_Baumann14 Mar 2022 22:35 UTC

31 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Debate and Effective Altruism: Friends or Foes?

TenaThau10 Nov 2018 18:33 UTC

33 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

Numerical Breakdown of 47 1-on-1s as an EAG First-Timer (Going All Out Strategy)

Harry Luk6 Nov 2023 17:01 UTC

42 points

10 comments13 min readEA link

We Should Give Extinction Risk an Acronym

Charlie_Guthmann19 Oct 2022 7:16 UTC

21 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

The internet town square doesn’t have to suck. The solution to broken social media is obvious: democratic cooperative ownership.

blainehansen29 Oct 2022 1:57 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(blainehansen.me)

Criticism is sanctified in EA, but, like any intervention, criticism needs to pay rent

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸11 Oct 2024 4:22 UTC

292 points

29 comments3 min readEA link

Quick-take. Definitions are over-rated in EA

Lovkush 🔸6 Nov 2024 20:55 UTC

29 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Opinioni indipendenti

EA Italy18 Jan 2023 11:21 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

Remember to translate your thoughts back again

brook1 Nov 2022 8:51 UTC

5 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Basics of Handling Disagreements with People

Camille12 Nov 2024 17:55 UTC

18 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Misquoting Is Conceptually Similar to Deadnaming: A Suggestion to Improve EA Norms

Elliot Temple3 Nov 2022 18:34 UTC

−5 points

0 comments18 min readEA link

(curi.us)

Being Open to Bribes for your time (for charities); or Charitable Bribes as Solving a Signaling Problem

Brad West🔸4 Aug 2022 4:41 UTC

16 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Using Odds instead of Probabilities with Bayes’ rule

EricHerboso23 Dec 2020 4:04 UTC

15 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Is the EA community really advocating principles over conclusions ?

Solal 🔸11 Dec 2024 16:31 UTC

72 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

Comments should float beside text

Nathan Young2 Sep 2022 16:37 UTC

2 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Weighted Pros / Cons as a Norm

SeanEngelhart29 May 2021 2:37 UTC

15 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Are EAs interested in using or consuming more diagrams or data visualisations?

Joseph Bloom25 Aug 2022 2:05 UTC

17 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

LW4EA: Epistemic Legibility

Jeremy16 Aug 2022 15:55 UTC

5 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Does EA have an alternative to rational, written debate methodology?

Elliot Temple8 Oct 2022 17:27 UTC

−5 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Let’s not glorify people for how they look.

Florence11 Aug 2022 14:33 UTC

56 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

Is my blog too provocative for a group organizer?

Ariel Pontes10 Jul 2022 13:51 UTC

22 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

How to Write Readable Posts

davidhartsough20 Oct 2022 7:48 UTC

24 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

(davidhartsough.com)

Fine-Grained Karma Voting

Jordan Arel26 Sep 2022 18:58 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

The Ethics of Posting: Real Names, Pseudonyms, and Burner Accounts

Sarah Levin9 Mar 2023 22:53 UTC

63 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

EA for dumb people?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC

487 points

160 comments2 min readEA link

Collaborative Truth-Seeking

Gleb_T4 May 2016 22:56 UTC

15 points

16 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Debate with Rational Methodology?

Elliot Temple5 Oct 2022 16:52 UTC

1 point

1 comment1 min readEA link

Button for controversial posts

SaraAzubuike27 Jul 2022 4:21 UTC

14 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

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