Thanks for your suggestions.

Regarding time, it is alas too hard to fit into everyone's non-work hours. Since the discussion continues for several days, I hope it isn't too bad to get there a bit late. If people would like to coordinate to be here at the same time though, I suggest Europeans pick a more convenient 'European start time', and coordinate to meet each other then.

Regarding a wiki page for collaborative work, I'm afraid MIRI won't be organizing anything like this in the near future. If anyone here is enthusiastic for such a thing, you are most welcome to begin it (though remember that such things are work to organize and maintain!) The LessWrong wiki might also be a good place for some such research. If you want a low maintenance collaborative work space to do some research together, you could also link to a google doc or something for investigating a particular question.

I strongly support your idea to establish a collaborative work platform. Nick Bostroms book brings so many not yet debated aspects into public debate that we should support him with input and feed back for the next edition of this book. He threw his hat into the ring and our debate will push sales for his book. I suspect he prefers to get comments and suggestions for better explanations in a structured manner.