“We mapped the EA Forum’s intellectual landscape - read about epistemic quality analysis, forum vibes, author networks, and a new writing tool we developed” by Matt Brooks, alejbo

We scraped all EA forum posts & comments from 2024 and 2025 to use as a test bed for sense making, analysis, and AI-powered epistemic grading as a part of the Future of Life Foundation's Fellowship on AI for Human Reasoning. (We’re happy to share all code and all datasets, etc. to interested parties. Just reach out!) (There are streamlet dashboards associated with each image so you can search/sort with the data yourself)General Sense Making Matt Brooks - [email protected] I didn’t have a clear vision of what I was trying to find / accomplish, so I kind of did a bunch of random stuff to see what I found interesting and potentially valuable. Feel free to skip any sub section below that doesn’t seem interesting to you. Here are the six types of analysis I explored: Had Gemini read 1M tokens of EA content and generate an [...] ---Outline:(00:46) General Sense Making(01:51) EA Forum Egregore(04:23) Monthly Vibe(09:04) Page Rank & Author Analysis(10:19) Topic Clusters(10:54) Keyword Trend Analysis(11:42) EA Forum Twins(14:19) Post-Level Epistemic Quality Analysis(22:40) Putting it into practice - Introducing Winnow(23:36) Appendix(23:39) An Analysis of the EA Forum Egregore(33:13) All Monthly Summaries--- First published: September 15th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7kHX4CEiKJgWfJahY/we-mapped-the-ea-forum-s-intellectual-landscape-read-about --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.