Lesswrong real time chat
This is a short post to say that I have started and am managing a Slack channel for lesswrong.
Slack has only an email-invite option which means that I need an email address for anyone who wants to join. Send me a PM with your email address if you are interested in joining.
There is a web interface and a mobile app that is better than google hangouts.
If you are interested in joining; consider this one requirement:
- You must be willing to be charitable in your conversations with your fellow lesswrongers.
To be clear; This means (including but not limited to);
- Steelman not strawman of discussion
- Respect of others
- patience
- an aim for productive conversations, to make progress on our lives.
- a brains trust for life-advice in all kinds of areas where, "outsource this decision to others" is an effective strategy.
- collaborative creation of further rationality content
- a safe space for friendly conversation on the internet (a nice place to hang out)
- A more coherent and stronger connected lesswrong
- Development of better ideas and strategies in how to personally improve the world.
- AI
- Film making
- Goals of lesswrong
- Human Relationships
- media
- parenting
- philosophy
- political talk
- programming
- real life
- Resources and links
- science
- travelling
- and some admin channels; the "welcome", "misc", and "RSS" from the lw site.
Edit - first week of October: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mub/open_thread_oct_5_oct_11_2015/csr3
Edit - 3rd week in october 2015: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mwt/open_thread_oct_26_nov_01_2015/cuq5
Edit - 3rd week in november 2015 http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mzz/open_thread_nov_23_nov_29_2015/cwyl
Call for a Friendly AI channel on freenode
I visited #lesswrong on freenode yesterday and was able to get in some discussion of FAI-related matters. But that channel also exists to allow discussion of rationalist fanfiction, political opinions, and whatever else people want to talk about.
I would like for there to be a place on that network where the topic actually is Friendly AI - where you can go to brainstorm, and maybe you'll have to wait because they're already talking about cognitive neuroscience or automated theorem provers, but not because they're talking about ponies or politics.
Surely there are enough people with a serious, technical interest in FAI and related topics (and I don't just mean among LW regulars) to make such a channel sustainable. I'll bet that there are other people holding back from participation precisely because existing forums are so full of uninformed noise and conversational tangents. It's inevitable that entropy would set in after a while, but if the default baseline was still that even the chatter was technically informed and focused on what's coming - that would be mission accomplished.
I explored the freenode namespace a little. #FAI redirects to #unavailable, so it may be an abandoned project. #AGI exists but is invite-only. #AI exists but I'm told it's dull, and besides, the agenda here is meant to be, not just AI, but singularity-relevant AI. So there seems to be an opening. Or am I reinventing the wheel?
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