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This post is why LessWrong needs to be separated from SIAI. I don't actually object to the posts on SIAI-related matters at all - I file them mentally with the banners on Wikipedia - but it's a step that has to happen at some stage, even if not yet.
(I said this to Anna Salomon at the London Meet on Sunday. I conceded at the time I might just have been pattern matching, but I increasingly think it's the case. "A community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality" is an ABSOLUTELY KILLER mission statement, and it should be every contributor's watchword to breathe around here.)
As an alternative, perhaps we should get other causes to participate/recruit on LW?
Actually, why aren't they here already? We have a bunch of individuals with non-SIAI interests, but no causes other than SIAI, despite Eliezer repeatedly saying that they would be welcome.
Can I plug Wikimedia at this point? As I've noted, that's more analogous to a software project than an ordinary charity - your money is useful and most welcomed, but the real contribution is your knowledge.
(Then we need to fix the things wrong with the editor experience on Wikipedia ... though the Wikimedia Foundation is paying serious attention to that as well of late.)
Or, more generally: create educational material under a free content licence. If it's CC-by-sa, CC-by or PD, it can interbreed.
I suggest you make your comment a discussion post.
I wonder if there is even more leverage that LWers can apply. Maybe we could try come up with possible solutions to some of the institutional problems of Wikipedia, such as dark side editing? (Notice that article was written by our own gwern.)
Or you can just write a plug for Wikipedia for the front page, and lead by example. :)
Not front page, but posted!