kodos96 comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: gelisam 24 December 2012 07:24:29AM 12 points [-]

Are you kidding? Sign me up as a volunteer polyglot programmer, then!

Although, my own eagerness to help makes me think that the problem might not be that you tried to ask for volunteers and didn't get any, but rather that you tried to work with volunteers and something else didn't work out.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 24 December 2012 07:29:06AM 5 points [-]

The site is open source, you should be able to just write a patch and submit it.

Comment author: kodos96 24 December 2012 07:59:05AM 1 point [-]

This would be a poor investment of time without first getting a commitment from Eliezer that he will accept said patch.

Comment author: gelisam 24 December 2012 03:40:49PM *  2 points [-]

After finding the source and the issue list, I found instructions which indicate that there is, after all, non-zero engineering resources for lesswrong development. Specifically, somebody is sorting the incoming issues into "issues for which contributions are welcome" versus "issues which we want to fix ourselves".

The path to becoming a volunteer contributor is now very clear.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 25 December 2012 03:35:03AM *  3 points [-]

non-zero engineering resources

effectively zero

Getting someone to sort a list, even on an ongoing basis, is not functionally useful if there's nobody to take action on the sorted list.

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 24 December 2012 08:05:00AM 2 points [-]

It'd get you familiar with the code base, which you'd need to be anyway if you wanted to be a volunteer contributor.