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It has been 5.5 days since the MIRI Expansion party. Could someone, anyone who attended please describe briefly what was announced? (I attempted unsuccessfully to satisfy my curiosity by reading around all occurrences of "expansion" and "one medical" in /r/all/comments and scanning all the titles in /r/all/recentposts.)
IMHO there is little chance that an online-only community could replicate the successes (many friendships among the members, very high levels of enjoyment, motivation and engagement) of LW NYC. Why not? Well, at the risk of putting off those readers who dislike explanations from evolutionary psychology, friendship relies on complex...
The following excerpt from a recent post, Recursively Self-Improving Human Intelligence, suggests to me that it is time for a reminder of the reason LW was started. "[C]an anyone think of specific ways in which we can improve ourselves via iterative cycles? Is there a limit to how far we...