gwern comments on Church vs. Taskforce - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 March 2009 09:23AM

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Comment author: Tom_Talbot 28 March 2009 05:27:52PM 20 points [-]

Re: incremental implementability - if we ever do organise LessWrong meetups, we should organise rationalist book clubs. How many people here have actually read Judgement under Uncertainty? I confess I never got around to it, though I meant to, but knowing fellow readers might motivate me.

And another thing, when are we going to get a LessWrong wiki? The glut of information here and on OB is unmanageable and we ought to force some kind of order on it - a rationalist curriculum or cheat sheet or something. Having "previously in series" at the top of new posts leads to an impenetrable expanding tree of long blog posts, discouraging new members and confusing lazy and forgetful individuals such as myself.

Comment author: gwern 28 March 2009 07:34:41PM 2 points [-]

And another thing, when are we going to get a LessWrong wiki?

Why not take over the SL4 wiki? It's not like they're using it.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 March 2009 09:19:27PM 3 points [-]

SL4.org is unreliable, if we're going to have a wiki it should be hosted on-site.

Comment author: ciphergoth 29 March 2009 12:07:05AM 2 points [-]

I think that at the moment a wiki would be trouble. NPOV and the ultimate power of Jimbo are what make Wikipedia work. Other wikis work because what they discuss is not that contentious.

Comment author: gwern 29 March 2009 01:42:32AM 6 points [-]

Whoa now. Wikis aren't just about compiling neutral encyclopedia articles or FAQs or things of that nature. Remember that the original wiki was all about contentious (programming) discussions & ideas.

Comment author: William 29 March 2009 05:04:01AM 7 points [-]

Agreed. TVTropes works very well without any but the lightest semblance of neutrality.

Warning, though: It is horrendously addictive

Comment author: MBlume 29 March 2009 09:13:58AM 9 points [-]

Ironically enough, I just clicked through to see what was behind "horrendously addictive" and lost half an hour.

Comment author: CannibalSmith 29 March 2009 12:37:49PM 14 points [-]

JUST HALF AN HOUR!?