I think this is very needed. When reviewing singularity models for a paper I wrote I could not find many readily citable references to certain areas that I know exist as “folklore”. I don’t like mentioning such ideas because it makes it look (to outsiders) as I have come up with them, and the insiders would likely think I was trying to steal credit.
There are whole fields like friendly AI theory that need a big review. Both to actually gather what has been understood, and in order to make it accessible to outsiders so that the community thinking about it can grow and deepen.
Whether this is a crowdsourcable project is another matter, but at the very least crowdsourcing raw input for later expert paper construction sounds like a good idea. I would expect that eventually it would need to boil down to one or two main authors doing most of the job, and a set of co-authors for speciality skills and prestige. But since this community is less driven by publish-or-perish and more by rationality concerns I expect ordering of co-authors may be less important.
I think this is very needed. When reviewing singularity models for a paper I wrote I could not find many readily citable references to certain areas that I know exist as “folklore”. I don’t like mentioning such ideas because it makes it look (to outsiders) as I have come up with them, and the insiders would likely think I was trying to steal credit.
There are whole fields like friendly AI theory that need a big review. Both to actually gather what has been understood, and in order to make it accessible to outsiders so that the community thinking about it can grow and deepen.
Whether this is a crowdsourcable project is another matter, but at the very least crowdsourcing raw input for later expert paper construction sounds like a good idea. I would expect that eventually it would need to boil down to one or two main authors doing most of the job, and a set of co-authors for speciality skills and prestige. But since this community is less driven by publish-or-perish and more by rationality concerns I expect ordering of co-authors may be less important.