I used to comment a fair bit over the last decade or so, and post occasionally. After the exodus of LW 1.0 the site was downhill, but the current team managed to revive it somehow and they deserve a lot of credit for that, most sites on the downward trajectory never recover.
It felt pretty decent for another few years, but eventually the rationality discourse got swamped by the marginal quality AI takes of all sorts. The MIRI work, prominently featured here, never amounted to anything, according to the experts in ML, probability and other areas relevant to their research. CFAR also proved a flop, apparently. A number of recent scandals in various tightly or loosely affiliated orgs did not help matters. But mainly it’s the dearth of insightful and lasting content that is sad. There is an occasional quality post, of course, but not like it used to be. The quality discourse happens on ACX and ACXD and elsewhere, but rarely here. To add insult to injury, the RSS feed stopped working, so I can no longer see the new posts on my offsite timeline.
My guess is that the bustling front disguises serious issues, and maybe the leadership could do what Eliezer called “Halt, melt, and catch fire”. Clearly this place does not contribute to AI safety research in any way. The AI safety agitprop has been undoubtedly successful beyond wildest dreams, but seems like it’s run its course, now that it has moved into a wider discourse. EA has its own place. What is left? I wish I knew. I would love to see LW 3.0 taking off.
To add insult to injury, the RSS feed stopped working, so I can no longer see the new posts on my offsite timeline.
Check out GreaterWrong’s RSS feeds; you can click the “RSS” link at the top right of any page to get a feed for that view (frontpage, all, curated, whatever else).
No, I assume I would not be the only person having this issue, and if I were the only one, it would not be worth the team’s time to fix it. Also, well, it’s not as important anymore, mostly a stream of dubious AI takes.
Thank you for checking! None of the permutations seem to work with LW, but all my other feeds seem fine. Probably some weird incompatibility with protopage.
I used to comment a fair bit over the last decade or so, and post occasionally. After the exodus of LW 1.0 the site was downhill, but the current team managed to revive it somehow and they deserve a lot of credit for that, most sites on the downward trajectory never recover.
It felt pretty decent for another few years, but eventually the rationality discourse got swamped by the marginal quality AI takes of all sorts. The MIRI work, prominently featured here, never amounted to anything, according to the experts in ML, probability and other areas relevant to their research. CFAR also proved a flop, apparently. A number of recent scandals in various tightly or loosely affiliated orgs did not help matters. But mainly it’s the dearth of insightful and lasting content that is sad. There is an occasional quality post, of course, but not like it used to be. The quality discourse happens on ACX and ACXD and elsewhere, but rarely here. To add insult to injury, the RSS feed stopped working, so I can no longer see the new posts on my offsite timeline.
My guess is that the bustling front disguises serious issues, and maybe the leadership could do what Eliezer called “Halt, melt, and catch fire”. Clearly this place does not contribute to AI safety research in any way. The AI safety agitprop has been undoubtedly successful beyond wildest dreams, but seems like it’s run its course, now that it has moved into a wider discourse. EA has its own place. What is left? I wish I knew. I would love to see LW 3.0 taking off.
Check out GreaterWrong’s RSS feeds; you can click the “RSS” link at the top right of any page to get a feed for that view (frontpage, all, curated, whatever else).
Have you reported this on Intercom as a bug report?
No, I assume I would not be the only person having this issue, and if I were the only one, it would not be worth the team’s time to fix it. Also, well, it’s not as important anymore, mostly a stream of dubious AI takes.
But if everyone assumes this and thinks thus…
Thankfully, human traits are rather dispersive.
Can you say more about the RSS feed not working? I just checked the basics and they still seem to work.
Could be the app I use. It’s protopage.com (which is the best clone of the defunct iGoogle I could find):
Hmm, I don’t know how that works. If you go to LessWrong.com/feed.xml you can see the RSS feed working.
I noticed the error said http rather than https.
neither worked… Something with the app, I assume.
Yeah, I just came to this post from my RSS reader (Feedbin) and it says I’m subscribed to https://www.lesswrong.com/feed.xml
Thank you for checking! None of the permutations seem to work with LW, but all my other feeds seem fine. Probably some weird incompatibility with protopage.