Kaj_Sotala comments on Rationality: From AI to Zombies - LessWrong

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 18 March 2015 10:16:57PM 5 points [-]

Come to think of it, we could collect proposed rewrites / deletions to some wiki page: this seems suitable for a communal effort. The "deletions" wouldn't actually need to be literal deletions, they could just be moved into a footnote. E.g. in the Burdensome Details article, a footnote saying something like "technically, you can measure probabilities by logarithms and..."

Comment author: RobbBB 19 March 2015 12:37:21AM *  4 points [-]

I like the idea of turning a lot of these jargony asides, especially early in the book, into footnotes. We'll be needing to make heavier use of footnotes anyway in order to explicitly direct people to other parts of the series in places where there will no longer be a clickable link. (Though we won't do this for most clickable links, just for the especially interesting / important ones.)

You're welcome to use a wiki page to list suggested changes, or a Google Doc; or just send a bunch of e-mails to errata@intelligence.org with ideas.