@Aurelia Adhiambo - have you guys met? 

Seems reasonable, I'd have to reread the stories. My guess would be that after that I'll still think that the particular flavour of "AI will be a big deal" is still subculture-specific and likely enough to remain so. I.e. a particular view of what AI is, what a future with AI might look like, the capabilities we imagine it having, what's horrifying about it etc... 

I'm writing a retro for the AGI & Animals debate week. Do you have any feedback, positive or negative?
I'll use it to improve the next debate week, and I don't get that much feedback, so the chances of me actually changing how I run the event based on your comment are relatively high. 

Thanks for sharing it here Linch, I really enjoyed the review (and I've been enjoying Tomas's fiction). 

Counterpoint to the 'our last great talent' thing - Tomas seems like a success story in that he's found a pretty finite niche that he excels in. His stories depend on a shared knowledge base that we share, but that most of e.g. Ted Chiang's readers do not. I think that's kind of fine and Tomas should just double down on that rather than trying to reach a wider audience.

 If in the future there are still sub-cultures (and in all but the most nuts AI transformed worlds there would be), then there will still be Tomases. 

For context Natalie is doing Inkhaven (one blog a day for a month). 
I'd recommend checking out her blog (and the others on the link) - I've found it pretty inspirational for blogging. My non-EA-related drafts are inching closer to publication. 

No worries Molly! 

If you want an idea for another blog-post James it'd be cool to see more of an cost-effectiveness estimate for each (or some) of these. 

I.e. I've seen a lot of hand-waving about the loneliness crisis, misinformation etc... but I have never seen someone translate that into DALYs or WELLBYs so it can be compared with the magnitude of malaria, tuberculosis, depression in LMICs, etc... 

Cheers!

The way you've gone about it seems reasonable enough to me (i.e. I don't think you need to do anything to correct it now). 

I still think it is ideal to run a critique like this past an organisation first - primarily because of the chance of misunderstandings. I'm being agnostic here about whether a misunderstanding would be your fault or the fault of AIM for using ambiguous terms/ entering the wrong number etc... The thing we'd be trying to avoid is spreading a critique of an organisation that is based on a hard to dispel/correct misunderstanding (many more people would see a critique than a correction). 

I explain in the post that the mod team can help you get some feedback from the org first if you'd rather not do it yourself/ don't feel you have a warm enough lead. Just dm me on the Forum if you'd like that help in the future. 

PS- given "I'm new to posting on the Forum and I'd take your read on the convention seriously" I'd also add that I think you'd get more readers if you shared the whole post here. When I first saw this I thought this was the whole post (link-post and cross-post are pretty easy to conflate on the Forum). If you instead want people to spend time on your blog website, I'd just make sure to put a "continue reading" link at the end. Though, you'll get more comments if you put the full post on the Forum. 

(Not trying to represent an institutional take here, other mods may disagree)

Would you mind spelling out the problem a bit? In my view, the current karma total is important info for me deciding whether to up or downvote something. 

For example, I might have downvoted this quick take if it was over 60 or so (because quick-takes above 60 are generally worth reading for a wide group), and yet I wouldn't downvote it at the number I found it (1) because it doesn't deserve to have negative karma^[1]. 

In other words, I think of karma almost as the question "is this post/comment under-, over-, or correctly rated?", and I don't currently think that that's a problem. 

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   Also TBF I generally avoid upvoting or downvoting anything about the Forum itself, since I might be biased. 

Hey! Just checking, did you run this past AIM first? We recommend that you do, out of politeness but also to avoid easy to dispell misunderstandings.