It seems there's an unofficial norm: post about AI safety in LessWrong, post about all other EA stuff in the EA Forum. You can cross-post your AI stuff to the EA Forum if you want, but most people don't.
I feel like this is pretty confusing. There was a time that I didn't read LessWrong because I considered myself an AI-safety-focused EA but not a rationalist, until I heard somebody mention this norm. If we encouraged more cross-posting of AI stuff (or at least made the current norm more explicit), maybe the communities on LessWrong and the EA Forum would be more aware of each other, and we wouldn't get near-duplicate posts like thesetwo.
Which part do people disagree with? That the norm exists? That the norm should be more explicit? That we should encourage more cross-posting?
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I think it would be extremely bad for most LW AI Alignment content if it was no longer colocated with the rest of LessWrong. Making an intellectual scene is extremely hard. The default outcome would be that it would become a bunch of fake ML research that has nothing to do with the problem. "AI Alignment" as a field does not actually have a shared methodological foundation that causes it to make sense to all be colocated in one space. LessWrong does have a shared methodology, and so it makes sense to have a forum of that kind.
I think it could make sense to have forums or subforums for specific subfields that do have enough shared perspective to make a coherent conversation possible, but I am confident that AI Alignment/AI Safety as a field does not coherently have such a thing.