I do think there is an interesting question of “how much should people have read?” which is actually hard to answer.
There are people who don’t need to read as much in order to say sensible and valuable things, and some people that no amount of reading seems to save.
The half a million words is the Sequences. I don’t obviously want a rule that says you need to have read all of them in order to post/comment (nor do I think doing so is a guarantee), but also I do want to say that if you make mistakes the the Sequences would teach you not to make, that could be grounds for not having your content approved.
A lot of the AI newbie stuff I’m disinclined to approve is the kind that makes claims that are actually countered in the Sequences, e.g. orthogonality thesis, treating the AI too much like humans, various fallacies involving words.
I do think there is an interesting question of “how much should people have read?” which is actually hard to answer.
There are people who don’t need to read as much in order to say sensible and valuable things, and some people that no amount of reading seems to save.
The half a million words is the Sequences. I don’t obviously want a rule that says you need to have read all of them in order to post/comment (nor do I think doing so is a guarantee), but also I do want to say that if you make mistakes the the Sequences would teach you not to make, that could be grounds for not having your content approved.
A lot of the AI newbie stuff I’m disinclined to approve is the kind that makes claims that are actually countered in the Sequences, e.g. orthogonality thesis, treating the AI too much like humans, various fallacies involving words.