JP Addison🔸

• JP Addison🔸 5 Nov 2024 22:40 UTC

  9 points

  4 ∶ 1

  in reply to: MathiasKB🔸’s comment on: Poli­tics and the EA Fo­rum

  Ah, um, confusingly the default for personal is “Hidden”, and what you’ve done is effectively changed your settings for Personal Blogs to “Neutral.”

• JP Addison🔸 5 Nov 2024 19:23 UTC

  65 points

  21 ∶ 6

  on: Poli­tics and the EA Fo­rum

  You can read our politics policy here.

  Political issues are clearly relevant to improving the world. However, in our experience, we’ve seen that partisan political discussion tends to have a strong polarizing effect on public forums; it consumes a lot of a community’s attention and can lead to emotionally charged arguments. Overall, we think the EA Forum will be healthier, and better-positioned to achieve its goals, if we limit the space given to political topics.

• JP Addison🔸 5 Nov 2024 19:20 UTC

  4 points

  0 ∶ 1

  in reply to: MathiasKB🔸’s comment on: Poli­tics and the EA Fo­rum

  You probably have customized your feed to show personal blogposts. The default feed has them hidden.

• JP Addison🔸 13 Sep 2024 22:05 UTC

  21 points

  7 ∶ 0

  on: Brief Up­dates on EAIF

  I really appreciate brief update posts like this, that help me keep some awareness of other meta projects. Thanks!

• JP Addison🔸 28 Aug 2024 22:04 UTC

  4 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: richard_ngo’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform

  Another comment from me:

  I don’t like my mod message, and I apologize for it. I was rushed and used some templated language that I knew damn well at the time that I wasn’t excited about putting my name behind. I nevertheless did and bear the responsibility.

  That’s all from me for now. The mods who weren’t involved in the original decision will come in and reconsider the ban, pursuant to the appeal.

• JP Addison🔸 28 Aug 2024 21:40 UTC

  −5 points

  1 ∶ 4

  in reply to: richard_ngo’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform

  In the post that prompted the ban, they asked whether murdering meat-eaters could be considered ethical. I don’t want to comment on whether this would be an appropriate topic for a late night philosophy club conversation, it is not an appropriate topic for the EA Forum.

• JP Addison🔸 28 Aug 2024 21:38 UTC

  10 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: richard_ngo’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform

  That is not the post in question. We removed the post that prompted the ban.

• JP Addison🔸 28 Aug 2024 19:32 UTC

  −1 points

  0 ∶ 9

  in reply to: Lizka’s comment on: Lizka’s Shortform

  Moderation update: We’re issuing dstudiocode a one-month ban for breaking Forum norms in their recent post and subsequent behavior. Specifically:

  • Posting content that could be interpreted as promoting violence or illegal activities.

  The post in question, which asked whether murdering meat-eaters could be considered “ethical,” crosses a line in terms of promoting potential violence.

  As a reminder, the ban affects the user, not just the account. During their ban period, the user will not be permitted to rejoin the Forum under another account name. If they return to the Forum after the ban period, we’ll expect a higher standard of norm-following and compliance with moderator instructions.

  You can reach out to forum-moderation@effectivealtruism.org with any questions. You can appeal this decision here.

CEA is hiring a Head of Oper­a­tions (ap­pli­ca­tions closed early)

• JP Addison🔸 5 Aug 2024 16:43 UTC

  39 points

  13 ∶ 0

  on: On Own­ing Our EA Affiliation

  I very much appreciate you writing this, and writing it so well. I really resonate with a lot of this, though of course maybe my role as a professional EA community person makes it harder for me and others to trust my take.

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: July 2024

• JP Addison🔸 1 Jul 2024 23:21 UTC

  6 points

  2 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Ozzie Gooen’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform

  I’m excited that we exceeded our goals enough to have the issue :)

• JP Addison🔸 25 Jun 2024 21:01 UTC

  7 points

  1 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Ozzie Gooen’s comment on: Ozzie Gooen’s Shortform

  I don’t know about you but I just learned about one of the biggest updates to OPs grantmaking in a year on the Forum.

  That said, the data does show some agreement with your and commenters vibe of lowering quantity.

  I agree that the Forum could be a good place for a lot of these discussions. Some of them aren’t happening at all to my knowledge.^[1] Some of those should be, and should be discussed on the Forum. Others are happening in private and that’s rational, although you may be able to guess that my biased view is that a lot more should be public, and if they were, should be posted on the Forum.

  Broadly: I’m quite bullish on the EA community as a vehicle for working on the world’s most pressing problems, and of open online discussion as a piece of our collective progress. And I don’t know of a better open place on the internet for EAs to gather.

  1. ^

     Part of that might be because as EA gets older the temperature (in the annealing sense) rationally lowers.

• JP Addison🔸 19 Jun 2024 13:01 UTC

  8 points

  4 ∶ 0

  on: Lov­ing a world you don’t trust

  I can’t recommend the podcast audio enough. 🥲

• JP Addison🔸 18 Jun 2024 21:16 UTC

  4 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: An­nounc­ing AI Welfare De­bate Week (July 1-7)

  Maybe halfway relevant: An Argument for Why the Future May Be Good by @Ben_West.

• JP Addison🔸 12 Jun 2024 17:49 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  in reply to: JP Addison🔸’s comment on: EA EDA: Look­ing at Fo­rum trends across 2023

  Oh, random thought: I think there are sometimes effects where the late holiday seasons often sees a dip like you observe. Maybe there’s a seasonal adjustment you could do?

  (If you did, you would be going beyond what we do internally though, so, like, not a criticism.)

• JP Addison🔸 12 Jun 2024 17:44 UTC

  2 points

  1 ∶ 0

  on: EA EDA: Look­ing at Fo­rum trends across 2023

  Great stuff. I’m glad you looked into the data, and posted it publicly. Congrats on getting the draft over the line 🙂. I’m glad our public API was able to help, sorry about the lack of documentation. (Oh, you know about our open source repo though?) I want to check on one point that it behaved correctly: did the site redirect you to the bot site?

• JP Addison🔸 1 Jun 2024 8:36 UTC

  12 points

  1 ∶ 0

  on: An­nounc­ing a $6,000,000 en­dow­ment for NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy

  Congratulations!

• JP Addison🔸 20 May 2024 20:57 UTC

  2 points

  0 ∶ 0

  on: JP’s Shortform

  Working questions

  A mental technique I’ve been starting to use recently: “working questions.” When tackling a fuzzy concept, I’ve heard of people using “working definitions” and “working hypotheses.” Those terms help you move forward on understanding a problem without locking yourself into a frame, allowing you to focus on other parts of your investigation.

  Often, it seems to me, I know I want to investigate a problem without being quite clear on what exactly I want to investigate. And the exact question I want to answer is quite important! And instead of needing to be precise about the question from the beginning, I’ve found it helpful to think about a “working question” that I’ll then refine into a more precise question as I move forward.

  An example: “something about the EA Forum’s brand/​reputation” → “What do potential writers think about the costs and benefits of posting on the Forum?” → “Do writers think they will reach a substantial fraction of the people they want to reach, if they post on the EA Forum?”

• JP Addison🔸 20 May 2024 12:29 UTC

  4 points

  1 ∶ 0

  in reply to: Vasco Grilo🔸’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  You can do this on the search page. (I agree it would be better for that option to appear on the user page filtering — it’s a natural thing to want to look for.)