iceman comments on MIRI's 2014 Summer Matching Challenge - Less Wrong

17 Post author: lukeprog 07 August 2014 08:03PM

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Comment author: iceman 08 August 2014 01:30:26AM 25 points [-]

Sent a check for $15,000.

I'm glad to see that publishing the Sequences is being prioritized. LessWrong is, sadly, dying and I'd love to have a published, edited version of Eliezer's original work that I can send to people.

Comment author: lukeprog 08 August 2014 01:39:17AM 8 points [-]

Received it! Thanks!

Yup, we are definitely aiming to have the Sequences book (not titled that) out by the end of the year.

Comment author: Vulture 08 August 2014 02:20:26AM *  1 point [-]

Any hints coming our way as to what the book edition will be titled? :)

Comment author: lukeprog 14 August 2014 12:10:31AM 3 points [-]

After substantial agonizing and market research, we finally settled on:

Rationality, A to Z: Thinking Clearly about Beliefs, Values, and the World

(The posts are re-organized into three "volumes," which correspond roughly to volumes on beliefs, values, and the world.)

Comment author: shminux 14 August 2014 12:57:51AM *  1 point [-]

Bah, I hoped for from AI to Zombies, but I suppose it's close enough.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 August 2014 07:34:13PM 1 point [-]

LessWrong is, sadly, dying

Quite the opposite, in my opinion. To me it looks like it's growing up. The discussions are less and less in the informal style of the Sequences (which were meant to be informal, so that's on-target) and more and more formal.

Comment author: nshepperd 14 August 2014 02:44:48AM 5 points [-]

And yet I see less and less evidence that people are actually reading the sequences, and more that this is being treated as "just another place to talk about your favourite 'philosophical' topics". Well, maybe the comments always sucked, but that's what it seems like to me.