As was commented by Clarity:

Perhaps someone can do a interview to differentiate his mind and rationality from others. For instance, his motivation for different posts or blog posts- or to what extent he consciously optimises his optimisation processes. Gwern, if you feel this is inappropriate and would rather not be put in the spotlight, make your feelings known and I'll won't hassle you further.

Otherwise, for the sake of developing my rationalist skill set and knowledge, I'd like to know more. Elo, would you be so kind as to consider conducting an indepth case study type interview?

(http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9e/a_survey_of_the_top_posters_on_lesswrong/) 

(http://lesswrong.com/lw/m9e/a_survey_of_the_top_posters_on_lesswrong/cgyo)

I am more than happy to start a small project in interviewing LW'ers of active participation.

With that in mind:

1. Who would you like to have interviewed? (can be multiples)
2. What would you ask them? (can be multiples)
   2a. what would generally be good questions for interviews of lesswrongers?
3. What format would you prefer (will survey in the comments)?

Disclosure: I am personally concerned with raising the profile, status and existence of in-person meetups, so I would probably include a few questions about:

• Where are you from?
• Which meetups have you visited?
• What was the most valuable thing you found in a meetup?

• Jung qb lbh qb jvgu lbhe gvzr (gvzr hfr)?
• Jung qb lbh qb sbe n yvivat (va pnfr gurl ner qvssrerag)?
• Jung ner lbh jbexvat ba?
• Jung qb lbh qb sbe sha?
• Jung zrffntr jbhyq lbh funer jvgu YJ?
• Jung qb lbh frr bs gur jbeyq va 10 lrnef?

I am keen to try to set up one interview every week or two.  (willing to put in 2 hours of effort each week towards contacting people, planing questions, talking to them, interviewing on record, tidying up the audio, then publishing the interview.  Est 15-45min interview)

A short article, quoting me and Luke:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/17/the-dangers-of-an-ai-smarter-than-us

It makes the point that it's not the shambling robots that are the risks here, but the other powers of intelligence.

EDIT2: The video has now been posted, you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tsI_28O3Ws

EDIT3: I have typed up a transcript for this video, you can see it in this google doc or in the comments here.

Just a heads up to the lesswrong community. Dr. Aubrey de Grey will be doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on reddit this upcoming Tuesday the 15th, scheduled for 9am EST. He will be doing a video-style response, which likely means that he will take the top voted questions and post his responses on youtube. When the AMA starts, you will be able to find it posted on http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ . I will update this post with links to the question thread and video response when they go live.

EDIT: Ask Aubrey de Grey your questions here: Ask Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation, Anything! He will be taking the top voted questions and answering them later this week in a video response. I will update this post then.

http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/04/20/mitigating-the-risks-of-artificial-superintelligence/