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Marcus Hutter just had a little article about AIXI published on the Australian website "The Conversation". Not much there that will be new to LW readers, though. Includes a link to his presentation at the 2012 Singularity Summit.
Discussion on Hacker News. (As happens far too often on HN, the link there is to the blogspam site phys.org rather than to the original source.)
This is not a problem at all unique to HN.
It's actually somewhat less of a problem on Hacker News than many sites, because the editors there will proactively change the source to the more canonical. For example, this particular post now points to the original article.
No indeed. But it's a problem that HN has, which is why I remarked on it. (I don't see it, for instance, here at Less Wrong.)
I do sometimes get mildly annoyed at people linking to a generic news site about some research (nytimes, etc.) instead of digging up a source as close to the original as possible.
It may not be "blogspam" proper, but it's research or tech being summarized by journalists, which tends to be less accurate than the original source.