But even outside of the practical and ideological issues, the current strategy just isn't working,
I'm not sure about that. I believe Eliezer's goal was to keep people from thinking seriously about the topic, from that point of view the current strategy appears to be working just fine.
I believe Eliezer's goal was to keep people from thinking seriously about the topic, from that point of view the current strategy appears to be working just fine.
There's not been much discussion here, but it's been discussed in a number of other areas, to such an extent that there are 1 RB search result to every 9 TDT search result. From a cursory examination, a significant amount seems serious enough to involve deep enough discussion of the topic to cause either evilSuperintelligence issues or possible psychological harm.
It could have been more prominent, of course, but I'm not convinced that it didn't reach greater levels of discussion because of Yudkowsky's response.
I have finally gotten the survey to a point where I'm pretty happy with it. I have no big changes I want to make this year. But as is the tradition, please take a week to discuss what minor changes you want to the survey (within the limits of what Google Docs and finite time can do) and I will try to comply. In particular, we can continue the tradition that any question you request can be added to the Extra Credit section unless it's illegal or horribly offensive.
You can find last year's survey results here and you can find the very preliminary version of this year's survey (so far exactly the same as last year's) here.
EDIT: I don't particularly like the IQ test or the Big Five test used last year. If you have any better replacements for either, tell me and I'll put them in.
EDIT2: CFAR, you added seven questions last year. Let me know what you want to do with those this year. Keep them? Remove them? Replace them?