Should a “ask dumb questions about AGI safety” thread be recurring? Surely people will continue to come up with more questions in the years to come, and the same dynamics outlined in the OP will repeat. Perhaps this post could continue to be the go-to page, but it would become enormous (but if there were recurring posts they’d lose the FAQ function somewhat. Perhaps recurring posts and a FAQ post?).
I don’t think it’s quite the same problem. Actually I think it’s pretty different.
This post tries to address the problem that people are hesitant to ask potentially “dumb” questions by making it explicit that this is the place to ask any of those questions. StackExchange tries to solve the problem of having a timeless place to ask and answer questions and to refer to such questions. It doesn’t try to solve the first problem of welcoming potentially dumb questions, and I think that that is a good problem to try to solve.
For that second problem, LessWrong does have Q&A functionality, as well as things like the wiki.
This is a good idea, and combines nicely with Stampy. We might well do monthly posts where people can ask questions, and either link them to Stampy answers or write new ones.
Should a “ask dumb questions about AGI safety” thread be recurring? Surely people will continue to come up with more questions in the years to come, and the same dynamics outlined in the OP will repeat. Perhaps this post could continue to be the go-to page, but it would become enormous (but if there were recurring posts they’d lose the FAQ function somewhat. Perhaps recurring posts and a FAQ post?).
This is the exact problem StackExchange tries to solve, right? How do we get (and kickstart the use of) an Alignment StackExchange domain?
I don’t think it’s quite the same problem. Actually I think it’s pretty different.
This post tries to address the problem that people are hesitant to ask potentially “dumb” questions by making it explicit that this is the place to ask any of those questions. StackExchange tries to solve the problem of having a timeless place to ask and answer questions and to refer to such questions. It doesn’t try to solve the first problem of welcoming potentially dumb questions, and I think that that is a good problem to try to solve.
For that second problem, LessWrong does have Q&A functionality, as well as things like the wiki.
This is a good idea, and combines nicely with Stampy. We might well do monthly posts where people can ask questions, and either link them to Stampy answers or write new ones.