Sorry to complain, but I opened the site to see what was going on, and Main has gone to utter crap.
“Is spirituality irrational?” and “3 reasons it’s irrational to demand ‘rationalism’ in social-justice activism” are now heavily-commented recent posts in Main. Meanwhile, “Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People” was published a short while ago, and nothing about it appears on this site.
Looks like this site has slid into the River of Low Domain-Knowledge, Easy-to-Discuss General Stuff, rather than staying up in the nice Forest of Stuff LW Purports to be About.
LessWrong is actively being redesigned. Until further notice, posts to Main have been disabled. Once the redesign is complete, LW may have multiple subs, none of which might be called ‘Main’, but one or more of which will be designated as where the nice Forest of Classic LW Stuff you’re hoping to find here. The only posts in Main recently are meetup posts and the survey, which were promoted there for visibility. Apparently, usage statistics show for the last several months Discussion has been getting much more attention than Main, so Discussion is where non-crap is. Of course, there is no more explicit division between crap and non-crap you’d expect the ‘Main’/‘Discussion’ divide to reflect. Try finding other ways to filter out crap, like reading the top posts from the previous week.
Evaporative cooling. Since LW now seems to have less of the stuff that made LW unique, and more Other Internet Stuff, I’ve been browsing LW less often.
Meanwhile, “Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People” was published a short while ago, and nothing about it appears on this site.
If you come across something cool, that you think would be of interest to LWers, and no one has posted it yet, then that’s your opportunity to post it yourself.
I’m curious how you found the paper. I asked myself how I would find such a paper (rather than just stumbling on it here). I first checked Tenenbaum’s homepage, but it’s out of date. Then I checked the CBMM publications page and found it.
Sorry to complain, but I opened the site to see what was going on, and Main has gone to utter crap.
“Is spirituality irrational?” and “3 reasons it’s irrational to demand ‘rationalism’ in social-justice activism” are now heavily-commented recent posts in Main. Meanwhile, “Building Machines That Learn and Think Like People” was published a short while ago, and nothing about it appears on this site.
Looks like this site has slid into the River of Low Domain-Knowledge, Easy-to-Discuss General Stuff, rather than staying up in the nice Forest of Stuff LW Purports to be About.
Context: Main is currently disabled; LessWrong 2.0
LessWrong is actively being redesigned. Until further notice, posts to Main have been disabled. Once the redesign is complete, LW may have multiple subs, none of which might be called ‘Main’, but one or more of which will be designated as where the nice Forest of Classic LW Stuff you’re hoping to find here. The only posts in Main recently are meetup posts and the survey, which were promoted there for visibility. Apparently, usage statistics show for the last several months Discussion has been getting much more attention than Main, so Discussion is where non-crap is. Of course, there is no more explicit division between crap and non-crap you’d expect the ‘Main’/‘Discussion’ divide to reflect. Try finding other ways to filter out crap, like reading the top posts from the previous week.
Huh. Whatever then.
Woah there! It’s called handi-capable now!
Don’t apologize. I’ve been waiting for weeks for someone to complain, to make sure that it wasn’t just me who felt this was an actual problem.
Evaporative cooling. Since LW now seems to have less of the stuff that made LW unique, and more Other Internet Stuff, I’ve been browsing LW less often.
If you come across something cool, that you think would be of interest to LWers, and no one has posted it yet, then that’s your opportunity to post it yourself.
I really liked the linked paper, thanks for posting the link.
No problem! I was excited to see it, since I fanboy over that lab.
A good paper!
I’m curious how you found the paper. I asked myself how I would find such a paper (rather than just stumbling on it here). I first checked Tenenbaum’s homepage, but it’s out of date. Then I checked the CBMM publications page and found it.
Another interesting paper from that page: “Foveation-based Mechanisms Alleviate Adversarial Examples”
Honestly? I browse /r/MachineLearning pretty regularly, and someone there tends to eventually post Tenenbaum-lab papers.
Main is indeed frozen but for some meta stuff like the survey, it’s no more a source of authoritative posts.