As a data point, I remember reading that Twitter thread and thinking it didn't make a lot of technical sense (I remember also being worried about the lack of forward secrecy since he wanted to store DMs encrypted on the blockchain).

But the goal was to make a lot of money, not to make a better product, and seeing that DogeCoin and NFTs (which also don't make any technical sense) reached a market cap of tens of billions, it didn't seem completely absurd that shoehorning a blockchain in Twitter made business sense.

My understanding was that crypto should often be thought of as a social technology that enables people to be excited about things that have been possible since the early 2000s. At least that's how I explain to myself how I missed out on BTC and NFTs.

In any case, at the time I thought his main goal must have been to increase the value of FTX (or of Solana), which didn't raise any extra red flags in the reference class of crypto.

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that the EA community may have hard a hard time seeing through tech hype

I think it's important to keep in mind that people could have made at least tens of millions by predicting FTX's collapse, this failure of prediction was really not unique to the EA community, and many in the EA community mentioned plenty of times that the value of FTX could go to 0.

Is this a use case for Reproducible Builds?

It seems the forum team already did it for at least one post , and I agree it's worth considering for all posts next year

Thanks for raising this! For now we (mods) have marked this year's posts as "personal blog", so they shouldn't be on the frontpage anymore for most users.

I think, for next year, editing the titles after a day or having a separate section could be good ideas

It was marked community by the author, we can remove the tag if he wants us to. I agree it's more a request for funding than something about the EA community.

AFAIK users can't remove the community tag from posts because of worries of misuse

It could be useful to have some sort of "sequence of sequences", similar to a basic version of https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/handbook

For the intro program, I used to link people to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/ea-italy and tell them to scroll down and start from "1. La mentalità dell'efficacia" but many people got confused and started from the latest posts. (So I moved to sending the first sequence directly for the first week)

Edit: I've been told they don't use this anymore and switched to Google Docs

Apparently its name is bulby: https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/pull/9053/files 

https://res.cloudinary.com/cea/image/upload/v1582740871/bulby.png

https://res.cloudinary.com/cea/image/upload/v1582740871/sadbulby.png

I was saddened to learn a few days ago that the mantis shrimp thing is actually a myth :( https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2015/12/mantis-shrimp-myth-about-vision-debunked/ 

You can use https://archive.is/ to read paywalled articles, depending on your ethical views on the matter

I really like the framing in Does EA bring out the best in me? (and symmetrically, "When I'm interacting with the effective altruism community, do I help bring out the best in others?")

But as written in this article, it doesn't seem to mean anything more than "I don't like EA". For anything to always bring out its best, it would need to be unrealistically consistent (as you mention in the footnote)