Ollie Etherington

• Ollie Etherington 10 Sep 2025 14:04 UTC

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  in reply to: guneyulasturker 🔸’s comment on: Re­jected from all the “EA” Jobs you ap­plied for? - What to do now?

  Are you sure you were looking at the right “here, here and here”? I just checked the raw post HTML in the forum database and there’s no links in that sentence:

  <p>In the current stage of LLMs, one may reasonably have short timelines for AGI coming in the next 3-5 years, as given here. Here, here, here, and here. It might...</p>
  

Your 2024 EA Fo­rum Wrapped

• Ollie Etherington 10 Nov 2023 13:50 UTC

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  in reply to: Lizka’s comment on: Eliz­a­beth’s Quick takes

  Not a bug—it’s from Where are you donating this year, and why? which is grandfathered into an old experimental voting system (and it’s the only post with this voting system—there are a couple of others with different experimental systems).

• Ollie Etherington 3 Oct 2023 15:56 UTC

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  on: [Er­ror com­mu­ni­cat­ing with LW2 server]

  test

Fo­rum up­date: 10 new fea­tures (Oct 2023)

• Ollie Etherington 12 Jul 2023 11:41 UTC

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  in reply to: Erich_Grunewald 🔸’s comment on: Nathan Young’s Shortform

  The fix for this is now live—thanks!

• Ollie Etherington 20 Jun 2023 19:07 UTC

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  in reply to: Ollie Etherington’s comment on: Ad­vanced search on the EA fo­rum—a how to?

  This fix is now live on the forum

• Ollie Etherington 19 Jun 2023 17:56 UTC

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  on: Ad­vanced search on the EA fo­rum—a how to?

  We actually deployed a whole new search backend last week, and it looks like you found the first bug.

  I’ve created a pull request on Github that should fix the quotation marks not working, and you can expect that to be live on the site in 1-2 days. In the mean time, your best bet is probably the Google search with site: that Neel mentioned.

  Thanks for letting us know!

De­sign changes & the com­mu­nity sec­tion (Fo­rum up­date March 2023)

• Ollie Etherington 23 Feb 2023 15:01 UTC

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  on: Ollie Ether­ing­ton’s Shortform

  Test shortform

• Ollie Etherington 3 Nov 2022 10:34 UTC

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  in reply to: EdoArad’s comment on: Dark mode (Fo­rum up­date Novem­ber 2022)

  This (and your other comment about tables in posts) should now be fixed—thanks for letting us know!

• Ollie Etherington 19 Oct 2022 13:27 UTC

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  in reply to: Will Howard🔹’s comment on: Soft­ware engineering

  FLutter seems interesting, but I think it’s potential will always be limited as long as it’s tied so closely to Dart. Also, given Google’s track record of killing products/​platforms with very little warning, I don’t think I’d be too comfortable building an entire business in a Google framework that’s tied to a Google programming language unless the community around it was big enough to take on maintenance if/​when it gets killed, which I don’t think is the case here.

  +1 for Expo though—it makes life super easy. There’s also the simple alternative of just making a responsive website and writing tiny native apps for each platform that just wrap the site in a webview.

• Ollie Etherington 23 Aug 2022 15:00 UTC

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  in reply to: Chi’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Thanks for the suggestion—I’ve made a note of it!

• Ollie Etherington 23 Aug 2022 14:57 UTC

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  in reply to: Emrik’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Great suggestion! I’ve added it to our list of features to consider.

• Ollie Etherington 23 Aug 2022 14:54 UTC

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

  Thanks for the suggestion—I’ve made a note of it!

• Ollie Etherington 26 Jul 2022 10:45 UTC

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  in reply to: Yonatan Cale’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Thanks for the suggestions! I’ve made a note of all of them!

• Ollie Etherington 26 Jul 2022 10:36 UTC

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  in reply to: Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸’s comment on: EA Fo­rum fea­ture sug­ges­tion thread

  Thanks for your suggestion! We’re already considering adding the ability to create anonymous posts, but the idea of a unique id to track them is interesting—I’ll make a note of it.