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Update: Added an announcement of our newest hire, Edward Kmett, as well as a list of links to relatively recent work we’ve been doing in Agent Foundations, and updated the post to reflect the fact that Giving Tuesday is over (though our matching opportunity continues)!
MIRI’s 2018 Fundraiser
It’s my understanding, thought Oliver can of course correct me if I’m wrong, that the canonical domain will be lesswrong.com, and all lesserwrong.com/* links will redirect to lesswrong.com/*, to ensure that any links on the web to lesserwrong.com continue to work.
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Update 2:
Professional poker players Martin Crowley, Tom Crowley, and Dan Smith, in partnership with Raising for Effective Giving, have just announced a $1 million Matching Challenge and included MIRI among the 10 organizations they are supporting!
Also, we’ve hit our first fundraising target ($625,000)!
See here for more details.
Update 2: Professional poker players Martin Crowley, Tom Crowley, and Dan Smith, in partnership with Raising for Effective Giving, have just announced a $1 million Matching Challenge and included MIRI among the 10 organizations they are supporting!
Also, we’ve hit our first fundraising target ($625,000)!
See here for more details.
Awesome! Thanks so much :)
MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser
We just passed the 1⁄4 mark towards our first target! Fun fact, of the ~$200k raised so far in the fundraiser, ~65% of that has come from cryptocurrency dontions.
We just passed the 1⁄4 mark towards our first target! Fun fact, of the ~$200k raised so far in the fundraiser, ~65% of that has come from cryptocurrency dontions.
MIRI’s 2017 Fundraiser
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It’s just a really big project. It’s almost an order of magnitude longer then In Eq, and it was written in a way that makes it much more challenging to turn into a paper book. E.g., links are pretty important when reading the Sequences. Said another way, the task of getting a physical book up for sale on Amazon is pretty trivial. The process of transforming the actual content of the Sequences into something that works in book form is significantly harder. In Eq doesn’t have this issue.
The enormity of the task combined with other competing priorities at MIRI are the reason it’s not out yet.
Yes.
I think the new font looks pretty good. I do think though for a body font the x-height is pretty small which makes is less readable.
I personally think to grey lines on the side do a pretty good job, but I also think that the boxes on LW 1 are doing something that makes things clearer. I do think that the LW 1 comments boxes do look a little junky though, and I’m very much enjoying the clean look of LW 2.0 overall. Not sure what a good compromise would be. Maybe all top level comments are a little more distinguishable in some way?
I agree there is something nice about being able to see who upvoted or downvoted a comment or post, but I don’t think I’d want this to be the default. I expect I’d feel uncomfortable voting on some stuff if I knew that my vote would be public. Maybe after voting, an option could appear that said something like “Make vote public”. Then you could have something pop up on hover (or with a tap on tablets/phones) that showed something like “Malo and 3 other people upvoted this post”. Though that would probably get unweildy if lots of people made their votes public. I think there’s a good idea in there though, just not sure about implementation specifics.
Yeah upvotes can mean a lot of different things like endorse, agree, or high quality comment (even though I disagree). This comment thread on another post discussed some potential extensions to upvoting that might help with this.
I don’t think this is working for me. I just made a bunch of comments last night, and got a couple replies since then. When I visited the site today I only noticed people had added comments when I saw then in the recent comments section.
How’s this supposed to work?
First two of the six volumes are out: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NjFgqv8bzjhXFaELP/new-edition-of-rationality-from-ai-to-zombies