Your 2022 EA Forum Wrapped 🎁

Sharang Phadke; Sarah Cheng; Lizka; Ben_West🔸; Jonathan Mustin

The EA Forum team is excited to share your personal ✨ 2022 EA Forum Wrapped ✨. We hope you enjoy this little summary of how you used the EA Forum as you ring in the new year with us. Thanks for being part of the Forum!

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bruceJan 1 202347

Looks fun! Thanks for this. Curious about EA forum alignment methodology!

(also happy new year to the team, thanks for all your work on the forum!)

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸Jan 1 202319

https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/blob/5f08a68cfd2eb48d5a2286962cd70ddfea9a97a6/packages/lesswrong/server/resolvers/userResolvers.ts#L322-L339

I think it looks at engagement (I assume time spent on the Forum) and the comments/posts ratio.

function getAlignment(results) {
  let goodEvil = 'neutral', lawfulChaotic = 'Neutral';
  if (results.engagementPercentile < 0.33) {
    goodEvil = 'evil'
  } else if  (results.engagementPercentile > 0.66) {
    goodEvil = 'good'
  }
  const ratio = results.commentCount / results.postCount;
  if (ratio < 3) {
    lawfulChaotic = 'Chaotic'
  } else if  (ratio > 6) {
    lawfulChaotic = 'Lawful'
  }
  if (lawfulChaotic == 'Neutral' && goodEvil  == 'neutral') {
    return 'True neutral'
  }
  return lawfulChaotic + ' ' + goodEvil
}

[anonymous]Jan 3 202310

Forum Team, maybe link "alignment" at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/wrapped to this comment rather than the Wikipedia page? (If I'd been labeled "evil" I think I'd much rather be reassured that it's for a completely irrelevant reason than linked to the D&D reference.)

Kat WoodsJan 2 20233

For those who don't program, this is what ChatGPT says this code means:

"This code defines a function getAlignment that takes in an object called results and returns a string indicating a combination of good/evil and lawful/chaotic alignments.

The function first initializes two variables, goodEvil and lawfulChaotic, to the string 'neutral' and 'Neutral', respectively. It then checks the engagementPercentile property of the results object. If the engagement percentile is less than 0.33, goodEvil is set to the string 'evil'. If the engagement percentile is greater than 0.66, goodEvil is set to the string 'good'.

The function then calculates the ratio of commentCount to postCount in the results object, and uses this ratio to set the value of lawfulChaotic. If the ratio is less than 3, lawfulChaotic is set to 'Chaotic'. If the ratio is greater than 6, lawfulChaotic is set to 'Lawful'.

Finally, the function checks if both lawfulChaotic and goodEvil are equal to 'neutral'. If they are, the function returns the string 'True neutral'. Otherwise, it returns the concatenation of lawfulChaotic and goodEvil with a space in between."

I don't code, so I have no idea if this is accurate, so please let me know if it's off.

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸Jan 2 202330

I think it's accurate, but I don't know if it's clearer

Here's a shitty table that I think is clearer

Actually, ChatGPT does a decent job at that

This is arguably better than my table:

Adrià Garriga AlonsoJan 2 202315

No, I think your table is substantially better than chatgpt’s because it factors out the two alignment dimensions into two spatial dimensions.

WriterJan 1 20232

I have to squint a lot to see the sense in this mapping

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸Jan 1 202310

I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously, just some whimsical easter egg

LizkaJan 2 202324

I'm really glad we made this. :)

Scanning through my strong upvotes & upvotes, here are things I think are really valuable (not an exhaustive list!^[1]), grouped in very rough categories:

Assorted posts I thought were especially underrated
Methods-ish or meta posts
Other posts I was really excited about (which don't fall neatly into other categories)
AI posts
Resources and lists
- EA Opportunities: A new and improved collection of internships, contests, events, and more.
- EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (21 Aug - 27 Aug 22’) — the whole series
- Forecasting Newsletter: January 2022 — the whole series
- The Future Fund’s Project Ideas Competition — this is still a bank of really interesting project ideas
- See more posts like this here:
Posts I wrote or was involved with (I searched for these separately, these weren't on my "wrapped" page)
- Events, highlighting especially good content, resources
- Other posts
- Thoughts on Forum posts:
- Crossposts
  - Distillation and research debt
  - Reasoning Transparency

Offering FAANG-style mock interviews

not in the top forum posts of the year or anything, but I'd want it to get more exposure

Barry GrimesJan 1 202322

Love this! I found it really valuable to be reminded of all the posts I’ve read this year and to reflect on how they’ve shaped my thinking. Big props to everyone involved in making this.

Max GörlitzJan 1 202319

This is so awesome, much cooler than Spotify Wrapped!!

LumpyproletariatJan 1 202312

I got LG for my forum alignment - I'm guessing that that's the most common one?

Comment if you got a different one (unless you'd rather not (I guess you could make a throwaway account so that no one judges you for being CE)).

Andrew SimpsonJan 1 20238

I got neutral evil 😳

WriterJan 1 20237

I am CHAOTIC Good MUAAHAHA

Kat WoodsJan 1 20234

Neutral good! Which is indeed how I identify.

I do predict that most EAs are either lawful good or neutral good.

Misha_YagudinJan 1 202310

Looking back on my upvotes, a surprisingly few great posts this year (< 10 if not ~5). Don't have a sense of how things were last year.

Sharang PhadkeJan 1 20238

If anyone has insights about what they find themselves marking as "most important" and want to share them with me, I would love to hear more about your ideas. Our goal with this is to learn how we can encourage more of the most valuable content, and your opinion is valuable!

You can message me on the Forum or schedule time to chat here.

Felix Wolf 🔸Jan 3 20234

Suggestion: make the wrap up easily shareable. Download as a .jpg for example.

I had to make a screenshot on my phone which did not captured everything.

I really enjoy this feature. :)