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Because that's what people are writing posts about -- presumably due to several recent developments in this area.
I haven't seen any non-AI posts getting dropped from the frontpage without getting a reasonable shot at visibility, so I don't see any need for moderator action at this time.
If you go to "customize feed" on your homepage (the button is on the right just above the "New and Upvoted" section), you can create a filter to reduce or eliminate the number of AI posts you see.
As Jason said, it's been a particularly eventful time in the AI world, so I'm not surprised there are a lot of posts about it right now. But there's also a lot of forum content generally, and we're certainly not lacking posts about GH&D.
The focus on "AI Safety" is getting out of control. There seems to be an illness that is compelling people to write ever longer and longer essays reiterating and neologising the exact plot of Space Odyssey/Terminator/The Matrix/iRobot over and over again.
Yet to find a post properly explaining why AI is inevitably going to kill everyone beyond handwaves at artisinal protein nanobots (unrealistic to anyone who has studied protein structure and function), or any post explaining how sinking a bunch of funding into yet another AI safety group will lead to a workable solution to this unproven problem.
Can we relegate these dear young sci-fi enthusiasts to a separate shame bin like the Community tab? I just want to get back to figuring out how to help the sick children dying of diarrhea and malaria
This is the third in a sequence of posts taken from my recent report: Why Did Environmentalism Become Partisan?
Summary
Rising partisanship did not make environmentalism more popular or politically effective. Instead, it saw flat or falling overall public opinion, fewer major legislative achievements, and fluctuating executive actions.
Public Opinion...
I think right now EAs might be making a significant mistake by paying insufficient attention to the political realm. As EAs we tend to figure out what’s most impactful for us to work on and focus hard. That’s great! But there are various actions that are ‘non-delegatable’ - the extent to which an individual can do the action is limited (like voting, going to a protest, making hard money contributions to particular campaigns). It might be useful if we were all more in the habit of doing variou...
New Video from AI in Context: The Fall and Rise of Sam Altman
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