It’s a blogging platform, it’s done by me with some support from Eliezer, and I’m doing it because it will help with x-risk. This is essentially identical to what we had in 2015.
Any platform that contributes to poisoning public discourse antagonizes coordination efforts. I think entering that space is a valid EA pursuit. Anyone who’s read meditations on moloch will do a better job of promoting the spread of truth and preventing spurious conflicts and than, EG, twitter.
That’s step 1. Steps 2 and after involve slowly converging towards the original Arbital vision. I just don’t think you can get there without mass adoption.
Is there actually any sort of obvious path from a microblogging platform to “the original Arbital vision”? I confess I don’t really see one, but maybe I haven’t understood what the original Arbital vision was.
Basically what we tried is: “let’s figure out how people are supposed to have truth-seeking conversations, build a platform that facilities that, and then grow it.” Step 1 is very hard. Step 3 is made harder because your platform only attracts truth-seeking people.
New approach: “build a platform that facilities communication, grow it, then shape the ongoing discussion to be more truth-seeking.” Step 1 is still hard, but not made harder. Step 3 sounds a lot more doable.
Well, what does it have in common with the already-existing thing called Arbital?
It’s a blogging platform, it’s done by me with some support from Eliezer, and I’m doing it because it will help with x-risk. This is essentially identical to what we had in 2015.
A new microblogging platform will help with x-risk?
I mean, I know Tumblr is bad, but it’s hardly an existential threat.
Any platform that contributes to poisoning public discourse antagonizes coordination efforts. I think entering that space is a valid EA pursuit. Anyone who’s read meditations on moloch will do a better job of promoting the spread of truth and preventing spurious conflicts and than, EG, twitter.
That’s step 1. Steps 2 and after involve slowly converging towards the original Arbital vision. I just don’t think you can get there without mass adoption.
Is there actually any sort of obvious path from a microblogging platform to “the original Arbital vision”? I confess I don’t really see one, but maybe I haven’t understood what the original Arbital vision was.
Here are like 5 pages explaining all the visions: https://arbital.com/p/more_about_arbital/
Basically what we tried is: “let’s figure out how people are supposed to have truth-seeking conversations, build a platform that facilities that, and then grow it.” Step 1 is very hard. Step 3 is made harder because your platform only attracts truth-seeking people.
New approach: “build a platform that facilities communication, grow it, then shape the ongoing discussion to be more truth-seeking.” Step 1 is still hard, but not made harder. Step 3 sounds a lot more doable.
Why do you believe that your new microblogging service will get mass adoption?
It’s a complicated answer and also somewhat outside of the topic I want to discuss here (which is Arbital 1.0). For part of the answer see: http://lesswrong.com/lw/otq/whats_up_with_arbital/dqbc
Inside View much?