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16 Post author: JoshuaFox 15 May 2012 11:09AM

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Comment author: thomblake 14 May 2012 06:33:17PM -2 points [-]

Move to Discussion.

As an aside, I seriously think we need to start considering general AI stuff as off-topic again.

Comment author: steven0461 14 May 2012 08:16:33PM *  7 points [-]

It's not "general AI stuff", it's about Friendly AI, as suggested by the post's title.

Joshua, congrats on publishing this.

Comment author: thomblake 14 May 2012 08:23:23PM -2 points [-]

In this context I put Friendly AI in the category of "general AI stuff".

The important part here is that it's about FAI, not about the art of human rationality.

Comment author: steven0461 14 May 2012 08:24:47PM 3 points [-]

As long as we're allowing some discussion on off-topic subjects that are not "the art of human rationality", can we please get rid of the useful off-topic subjects last?

Comment author: thomblake 14 May 2012 08:27:33PM -1 points [-]

I'd rather diminish the discussion of off-topic subjects, and get rid of the noisiest topics first.

AI and FAI are notable because people like to talk about them a lot for something off-topic.

Comment author: steven0461 14 May 2012 08:30:25PM 1 point [-]

I'd be more likely to agree if there were somewhere else to productively discuss Singularity/FAI issues.

Comment author: thomblake 14 May 2012 08:35:05PM 0 points [-]

I agree that there should be somewhere else to discuss those things.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 15 May 2012 08:13:42AM 1 point [-]
Comment author: thomblake 15 May 2012 01:55:20PM 1 point [-]

Does that still exist?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 15 May 2012 02:22:15PM 0 points [-]

The site's there, but I don't know how active the community still is.

Comment author: [deleted] 14 May 2012 06:39:30PM 4 points [-]

As an aside, I seriously think we need to start considering general AI stuff as off-topic again.

Perhaps the Singularity Institute and the Center for Applied Rationality should have separate community blogs?

Comment author: katydee 14 May 2012 07:06:27PM 6 points [-]

This is theoretically a good idea, but I think at present there is so much crossover between the communities that it would be unwise to make such a move.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 14 May 2012 11:05:44PM 5 points [-]

What about having softish separation like between main and discussion posts? Accounts and karma and code is shared, but different sections with different articles.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 14 May 2012 08:55:23PM 3 points [-]

Besides, the subject matters of the two have significant overlap. Where would you put formal analysis/development of various decision theories, for example?

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 14 May 2012 09:44:52PM 2 points [-]

Speaking of which, where is all that good stuff put as it stands?

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 15 May 2012 05:00:59PM 2 points [-]

In all seriousness, you may want to try Stuart Armstrong's user page.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 14 May 2012 10:35:55PM -1 points [-]

Put it on either and link it from the other one.

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 15 May 2012 06:35:44AM 4 points [-]

I like AI stuff.

Comment author: thomblake 15 May 2012 01:54:21PM 5 points [-]

I hope you realize that your liking of the off-topic subject is not relevant to this discussion.

Comment author: Dolores1984 15 May 2012 08:00:06AM -1 points [-]

As do I.

Comment author: David_Gerard 15 May 2012 10:30:38AM -2 points [-]

As an aside, I seriously think we need to start considering general AI stuff as off-topic again.

+1

It's interesting, but it's not something that fits the tagline: "refining the art of human rationality".