I do not recommend paying attention to the forum or “the community” as it exists today.
Instead, read the Sequences! (That is, the two-plus years of almost-daily blogging by Eliezer Yudkowsky, around which this forum and “the community” coalesced back in ‘aught-seven to ’aught-nine.) Reading and understanding the core Sequences is genuinely life-changing on account of teaching you, not just to aspire to be “reasonable” as your culture teaches it, but how intelligence works on a conceptual level: how well-designed agents can use cause-and-effect entanglements to correlate their internal state with the outside world to build “maps that reflect the territory”—and then use those maps to compute plans that achieve their goals.
I do not recommend paying attention to the forum or “the community” as it exists today.
Instead, read the Sequences! (That is, the two-plus years of almost-daily blogging by Eliezer Yudkowsky, around which this forum and “the community” coalesced back in ‘aught-seven to ’aught-nine.) Reading and understanding the core Sequences is genuinely life-changing on account of teaching you, not just to aspire to be “reasonable” as your culture teaches it, but how intelligence works on a conceptual level: how well-designed agents can use cause-and-effect entanglements to correlate their internal state with the outside world to build “maps that reflect the territory”—and then use those maps to compute plans that achieve their goals.
Again, read the Sequences! You won’t regret it!