I see. Yeah, I expressed what I was thinking incorrectly here. What I meant was that our preferences are slightly abnormal compared to what you would expect but not extraordinarily alien.

In our ancestral environment, we developed a taste for sugary things because berries, which are sugary, are good for us. Knowing this, you would expect that we would eat berries but not ice cream. The fact that we eat ice cream is somewhat abnormal. That said, it is not extraordinarily alien. If we, for instance, devoted our entire lives to eating as much sugar as is physiologically possible without dying, that would be very alien.

I should have said that their argument implies that AIs might have weird preferences but not extremely bizarre ones.

Thanks for catching that!

Yeah, I guess my definition of long-term is more like twenty to a hundred years.

Thanks for sharing your personal experience! As an outsider, I feel like I haven't seen many of those sorts of projects, but it's cool to see that people are actually doing them!

No, I haven't! Thanks for sharing it!

That's an interesting approach to trying to improve EA's presence! I really wish more people knew about EA, so I'm glad to see you're helping with that!

I'd like to see an event on the Forum dedicated to finding other possible EA cause areas and interventions. It seems like EA has some calcification in terms of mainly focusing on global health, factory farming, pandemics, and AI. It would be interesting to hear other important topics that aren't as commonly discussed.

I would like to be able to select multiple tags when searching the forum (such as "animal welfare" and "collections/resources"). I would also like to be able to get the top posts for different tags from different years. (For example, I would like to be able to find the top posts on "existential risks" from 2025.)

I would really like to see AI text banned from the forum. Many posters use AI tools to help organize, edit or generate parts of their writing. As a result of this, it's difficult to assess which ideas are originally from the author or merely generated by AI. Overall, I think that AI generated text tends to have a much lower quality because its tends be very vague, general, and repetitive. It also tends to use the exact same structures over and over again, which can be very boring to read. Lastly, by requiring posters to write out their own thoughts, it will create a higher barrier of entry to posting on the forum, which will improve the forum's content overall.