Link: My something-like-Friendliness-research blog
If you want to know what that something-like-Friendliness is, you can read the blog! You can find it here: http://willnewsome.wordpress.com/ (About page here: http://willnewsome.wordpress.com/about/ )
Anyone who’s bothered to notice the trend of my posts and comments to Less Wrong has probably noticed that I aim to be as metacontrarian and contentious as possible. Other times I run small social experiments. Sometimes this is interesting, sometimes it’s probably just frustrating, but I do hope it’s at least thought-provoking. With my blog I’m trying to showcase interesting ideas more than bring up counterintuitive alternatives, so perhaps those who don’t generally like my posts/comments will still find my blog tolerable. It’s also about something that I take more seriously than other rationality-related topics, that is, building an AI that does what we want it to do.
The names of of the posts I’ve put up already: “What are humans?”, “Are evolved drives satiable?”, “Why extrapolate?”, and “Gene/meme/teme sanity equilibria”.
I hope to get a new post out every few days, but honestly I have no idea if I’ll succeed in that. At the very least I have a few weeks’ worth of cached ideas to post, and I’ll continue studying related things in the meantime.
I’d really like anyone else who has a blog about anything mildly related to rationality to post a link in their own discussion post. Currently I only know to follow Vladimir Nesov and Luke Grecki (whose blogs are linked to from mine), and my RSS feed has room for many more.
Better aim to be less wrong!
I attempted to bring some rationality to the mind-killer here; writing about understanding the scope of theorems rather than blindly chanting ‘comparative advantage’, that socialists aren’t inherently evil, etc.
I liked those articles: keen application of standard LW methods. Consider linking to them from a top-level (discussion) post, as this post does.
I’ve read through what you have so far; some of them are decent, but why are they on a separate blog?
They’re not about rationality, they’re more organized this way, I have a smaller and more selected audience, and don’t have to worry as much about wasting peoples’ time or sanity, thus making it easier for me to braindump. A big part of why I’m writing is so that people I work with at SIAI can examine some of my intuitions, since I’m not good at explaining them on the fly. It also makes me appear more productive than just reading a bunch of books and storing them in my brain, waiting for big insights.
Spewing out lots of content also seems personally useful since I’m not that good a writer, and I strongly dislike being not-great at things.