My conception of the proposal was that the LW ban could be relaxed enough to allow use of relevant examples for rationality discussions, but not non-rationality posts about AI and the like.
I thought that was what was planned already (after May). I was responding to AnnaSalamon:
If we had a sister website where AGI/singularity could be talked about, we could keep a separate rationalist community even after May. The AGI/singularity-allowed sister site could...
I took that to mean keeping LW separate from AGI/singularity discussion, or why say ‘even after May’? Someone please explain if I misunderstood as I’m now most confused!
I think Anna wants to use the LW codebase to create a group blog to examine AGI/Singularity/FAI issues of concern to SIAI, even if they are not directly rationality-related. I think that’s a good plan for SIAI.
I thought that was what was planned already (after May). I was responding to AnnaSalamon:
I took that to mean keeping LW separate from AGI/singularity discussion, or why say ‘even after May’? Someone please explain if I misunderstood as I’m now most confused!
I think Anna wants to use the LW codebase to create a group blog to examine AGI/Singularity/FAI issues of concern to SIAI, even if they are not directly rationality-related. I think that’s a good plan for SIAI.