Interesting, though apparently this person made his suggestions to Salamon and Yudkowsky in person, not to the LW community itself—thus, his reference to “outright derision” is somewhat misleading. CFAR has indeed adopted some ideas that originally came from LW itself—the whole “goal factoring” theme of recent CFAR workshops seems to be a significant example.
Interesting, though apparently this person made his suggestions to Salamon and Yudkowsky in person, not to the LW community itself—thus, his reference to “outright derision” is somewhat misleading. CFAR has indeed adopted some ideas that originally came from LW itself—the whole “goal factoring” theme of recent CFAR workshops seems to be a significant example.