I recall reading somewhere about early LessWrong authors reinventing concepts that were already worked out before in philosophic disciplines (particularly in decision theory?). Can’t find any post on this though.
See Eliezer’s Sequences and Mainstream Academia and scroll down for my comment there. Also https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/XkNXsi6bsxxFaL5FL/ai-cooperation-is-already-studied-in-academia-as-program (According to these sources, AFAWK, at least some of the decision theory ideas developed on LW were not worked out already in academia.)
I hadn’t read about these specific cases yet, thanks! I appreciate your nuances here
See Eliezer’s Sequences and Mainstream Academia and scroll down for my comment there. Also https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/XkNXsi6bsxxFaL5FL/ai-cooperation-is-already-studied-in-academia-as-program (According to these sources, AFAWK, at least some of the decision theory ideas developed on LW were not worked out already in academia.)
I hadn’t read about these specific cases yet, thanks! I appreciate your nuances here