I personally would really like to see more direct technical work on LessWrong, though I am unsure about the best format. I am heavily in favor of people writing sequences of posts that introduce technical fields to the community, and think that a lot of the best content in the history of LessWrong was of that nature.
Strong +1. I’d love to see most of LW developing into object-level technical discussion of interesting things (object-level math, science, philosophy, etc.), skewed toward things that are neglected and either interesting or important; and very little meta or community-building stuff. Rationality should be an important part of all that, but most posts probably shouldn’t be solely about rationality techniques.
I have in the past engaged with a good amount of technical material (primarily MIRI’s agent foundation agenda). In general time is short though, and I can’t make any promises of participating in any specific effort.
I think so far I am not particularly compelled by the approach you are proposing in this and your next post, but am open to be convinced otherwise.
I personally would really like to see more direct technical work on LessWrong, though I am unsure about the best format. I am heavily in favor of people writing sequences of posts that introduce technical fields to the community, and think that a lot of the best content in the history of LessWrong was of that nature.
Strong +1. I’d love to see most of LW developing into object-level technical discussion of interesting things (object-level math, science, philosophy, etc.), skewed toward things that are neglected and either interesting or important; and very little meta or community-building stuff. Rationality should be an important part of all that, but most posts probably shouldn’t be solely about rationality techniques.
Time allowing!
I have in the past engaged with a good amount of technical material (primarily MIRI’s agent foundation agenda). In general time is short though, and I can’t make any promises of participating in any specific effort.
I think so far I am not particularly compelled by the approach you are proposing in this and your next post, but am open to be convinced otherwise.