I'm unable to edit past posts of mine; it seems that this broke very recently and I'm wondering if it's related to the changes you made.

Specifically, when I click the Submit or the "Save and Continue" buttons after making an edit, it goes to lesswrong.com/submit with a blank screen. When I look at the HTTP error code it says it's a 404.

I also checked the post after that to see if the edit still went through, and it didn't. In other words, my edit did not get saved.

Do you know what's going on? There were a few corrections/expansions on past posts that I need to push live soon.

I wish to write a one-year retrospective and/or report on this post. I'll contact Ben Kuhn to run this idea by him, to see if he would be interested. If he's too busy, as I expect he might be, I at least hope to seek his blessing to extend the mission of critiquing effective altruism.

There are also other critiques, like this one. Additionally, there have been counters and defenses in response to this post in the previous year. Further, specific to effective altruism, e.g., on the effective altruism forum, there has been more discussion of these ideas. I will take into account points from relevant and well-argued responses to this article in my retrospective report, and assessment of progress, vis a vis specific criticisms.

I don't believe I'm necessarily the best person to write this. However, I want to see it done, and nobody else has tried. However, I'm eager to collaborate with others. I'll write a rough draft, and outline, for this retrospective assessment. Comment below, or privately message me, if you'd be interested in reading. I will give you access to the Google Doc. This comment is the first action taken toward writing this assessment, so I expect it will take me at least a week to generate a first draft.

start a facebook group to generate interest. it seems to be the way to go. maybe you can attract people travelling through Tokyo.

I took the survey.

Does muflax still have a blog or write somewhere? I remember reading some interesting things, but I can't find them now. My memory may be faulty.

How do I build the habit of writing down a fleeting thought that seems interesting? Way too often I notice that I just wanted to do something or write something down. Or should I just accept the thought as gone?

Keyword searches are extremely useful.

I make excessive use of these, I can just type "i birch" in the address bar and get a google image search for "birch"

My keywoard searches include:

• 'i' for Google Images
• 'yt' for YouTube
• 'wp' for Wikipedia
• 'fr' for French Wikipedia
• 'lw' for LessWrong
• 'sc' for Google Scholar
• 'so' for Stack Overflow
• ... and occasionally others when I find that I'm searching a website very often

How do you create keyword searches?

In Firefox, it's explained here : http://robertnyman.com/2006/09/13/smart-keywords-in-firefox-are-outstanding/

In Chrome, it's explained here: http://lifehacker.com/5476033/how-to-set-keyword-bookmarks-in-google-chrome

In both cases, it boils down do associating a keyword with a search url of the form "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%s&title=Special%3ASearch", such that when you type "keyword whatever" in your search bar, %s in your search url is replaced by 'whatever'.

Combine this with the fact that adding "site:somewhere.com" in a google query restricts the search to that domain, you can make custom searches for any website (though in some cases, like wikipedia and stack overflow, the site's search function is more useful - for example, that wikipedia query up there will bring you directly to the page if it exists).

I know someone who might be interested in doing some translations into Japanese. If you add that language we might have a go.