That phrase may have overestimated the number of such subreddits—I mainly read r/Singularity (moderated by MIRI people, similar to LW, low volume), and r/artificial. There is an r/agi but it is very low volume. r/futurology is very high volume and future-optimist.
r/machinelearning is the most serious and the AMAs there are pure gold (Hinton, Bengio, Schmiduber, Lecun, Ng, etc). It’s main value for me is making it easier to stay up to date on ML/AI, saving most of the trouble of having to read through tons of abstracts from the various conferences.
It might but most redditors don’t really click links. I find it more useful to ignore them, occasionally skimming the arguments and upvoting the non-stupid comments.
What are the best ones?
That phrase may have overestimated the number of such subreddits—I mainly read r/Singularity (moderated by MIRI people, similar to LW, low volume), and r/artificial. There is an r/agi but it is very low volume. r/futurology is very high volume and future-optimist.
r/machinelearning is the most serious and the AMAs there are pure gold (Hinton, Bengio, Schmiduber, Lecun, Ng, etc). It’s main value for me is making it easier to stay up to date on ML/AI, saving most of the trouble of having to read through tons of abstracts from the various conferences.
/r/Futurology is also really annoying because people keep having the same arguments over and over again.
Could creating comprehensive overview pages for the arguments and linking people to them whenever the arguments came up be useful?
It might but most redditors don’t really click links. I find it more useful to ignore them, occasionally skimming the arguments and upvoting the non-stupid comments.
I would also strongly recommend /r/thisisthewayitwillbe
/r/artificial is the official AI subreddit.