Thanks to plex for co-authoring the post (co-authors are currently not reflected in EA Forum when crossposted from LessWrong).
The AI Safety Communities logo, by DALL-E 2
The AI safety field has been rapidly growing over the last few years, and more and more communities have been sprouting up all over the world, both physically and online.
The Alignment Ecosystem Development (AED) team identified having a living document listing them all as a low-hanging fruit, and volunteers are maintaining this live database of AI safety communities.
Here’s what you can do now:
Join communities you’re interested in and participate.
Link this to your friends.
Add communities to the document if they’re missing (account creation with coda.io is required)
Improve the descriptions of any communities which you’re a part of. Many of the current descriptions are incomplete or outdated, jump right in and share your knowledge.
Would be cool if LessWrong hosted subforums/bubbles/research-groups for anyone who wanted to start one and invite their friends. You would have the ability to write a post only to your bubble (visible on your bubble's frontpage or a private filter to the main frontpage) or choose to crosspost it to main as well. Having the bubbles be on LW provides them a little prestige boost and could stimulate some folk to initiate new research covens for alignment or whatever (or *cough* social epistemology research bubble maybe).
You could also have the option to filter karma so you only see the karma assigned by people in your bubble. Or, just like you can subscribe to get notified when people post, you could "subscribe" to prioritise their karma too. You could make a custom karma-filter individual to you by subscribing to people or groups whose opinions you trust. And the individual-filtered karma could be transitive as well, according to some parameters you set yourself--similar to plex&co's EigenTrust project except it'd be EigenKarma. There's more cool stuff here, but I'm probably never going to actually finish a post about it, so better suggest it briefly to someone than not suggest it at all.
Might be worth talking with them about on Intercom? If they had the functionality at some point, that (probably) makes it a lower-cost change to make, if removing it wasn't because they explicitly decided against it for some reason.
Thanks to plex for co-authoring the post (co-authors are currently not reflected in EA Forum when crossposted from LessWrong).
The AI safety field has been rapidly growing over the last few years, and more and more communities have been sprouting up all over the world, both physically and online.
The Alignment Ecosystem Development (AED) team identified having a living document listing them all as a low-hanging fruit, and volunteers are maintaining this live database of AI safety communities.
Here’s what you can do now:
Thanks to JJ Hepburn from AI Safety Support for providing the domain through ea.domains, another soon-to-be-launched AED project!