I agree that the article does some incredibly useful conceptual work. I will say that I think Eliezer had written it and was planning to publish independantly of our LW 2.0 plans, and that I think the test of LW 2.0′s success will be (in this case) the discussion following it, and more generally the communication between writers and thinkers from the whole community (things like this valuable critique of Eliezer’s fire alarm post).
Huh, I like the suggestion for applying this to Hamming’s talk, I might do that myself and do a brief write-up. Thanks!
I agree that the article does some incredibly useful conceptual work. I will say that I think Eliezer had written it and was planning to publish independantly of our LW 2.0 plans, and that I think the test of LW 2.0′s success will be (in this case) the discussion following it, and more generally the communication between writers and thinkers from the whole community (things like this valuable critique of Eliezer’s fire alarm post).
Huh, I like the suggestion for applying this to Hamming’s talk, I might do that myself and do a brief write-up. Thanks!