I have a (probably stupid) question. I have been following Less Wrong for a little over a month, and I've learned a great deal about rationality in the meantime. My main interest, however, is not rationality, it is in creating FAI. I see that the SIAI has an outline of a research program, described here: http://www.singinst.org/research/researchareas.

Is there an online community that is dedicated solely to discussing friendly AI research topics? If not, is the creation of one being planned? If not, why not? I realize that the purpose of these SIAI fellowships is to foster such research, but I'd imagine that a discussion community focused on relevant topics in evolutionary psych, cogsci, math, CS, etc. would provide a great deal more stimulation for FAI research than would the likely limited number of fellowships available.

A second benefit would be that it would provide a support group to people (like me) who want to do FAI research but who do not know enough about cogsci, math, CS, etc. to be of much use to SIAI at the moment. I have started combing through SIAI's reading list, which has been invaluable in narrowing down what I need to be reading, but at the end of the day, it's only a reading list. What would be ideal is an active community full of bright and similarly-motivated people who could help to clarify misconceptions and point out novel connections in the material.

I apologize if this comment is off-topic.