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NancyLebovitz comments on Meta: A 5 karma requirement to post in discussion - Less Wrong Discussion

46 Post author: Jack 20 January 2011 06:22AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 January 2011 05:51:13PM 12 points [-]

I don't know if this is just me, but I feel as though blocking the spam isn't just a matter of preventing inconvenience.

I keep thinking "these folks think they have a chance of getting self-optimizing FAI right the first time, and they can't even keep spam off their site".

Comment author: David_Gerard 21 January 2011 10:40:26PM 2 points [-]

"Help us develop an AI advanced enough and friendly enough to solve the spam problem, solve the good comments problem and make the discussion on YouTube and Yahoo Answers insightful and properly spelt."

Comment author: TimFreeman 13 April 2011 04:12:17AM 4 points [-]

Hi, I'm new.

Yes, that's Stross's Spamularity proposal:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/its-made-out-of-meat.html