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NxGenSentience comments on Superintelligence Reading Group 3: AI and Uploads - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NxGenSentience 05 October 2014 01:53:56PM 1 point [-]

Would you consider taking a one extra week pause, after next week's presentation is up and live (i.e. give next week a 2 week duration)? I realize there is lots of material to cover in the book. You could perhaps take a vote late next week to see how the participants feel about it. For me, I enjoy reading all the links and extra sources (please, once again, do keep those coming.) But it exponentially increases the weekly load. Luke graciously stops in now and then and drops off a link, and usually that leads me to downloading half a dozen other PDFs that I find that fit my research needs tightly, which itself is a week's reading. Plus the moderator's links and questions, and other participants.

I end up rushing, and my posts become kind of crappy, compared to what they would be. One extra week, given this and next week;s topic content, would help me... but as I say, taking a vote would be the right way. Other areas of the book, as I glance ahead, won't be as central and thought-intensive (for me, idiosyncratically) so this is kind of an exceptional request by me, as I forsee it.

Otherwise, things are great, as I mentioned in other posts.