I’m not sure what the forum achieves that the Discussion section doesn’t.
I’m also not sure why Less Wrong is lumped with SIAI here. The site may be supported by the SIAI, but in general, Less Wrong != SIAI, and the site attracts people skeptical or outright opposed to its ideas, as long as they are interested in non-singularity/AI related subjects. (Like me, for instance.)
The forums are not doing anything right now. What it’ll do once it actually develops into somehting at all remains to be seen, but presumably it’ll be either somehting different or not at all because if you post a discussion section type of thing you’ll want as many people as possible seeing it and thus post it in the discussion section for traffic.
I’m not sure what the forum achieves that the Discussion section doesn’t.
I’m also not sure why Less Wrong is lumped with SIAI here. The site may be supported by the SIAI, but in general, Less Wrong != SIAI, and the site attracts people skeptical or outright opposed to its ideas, as long as they are interested in non-singularity/AI related subjects. (Like me, for instance.)
I figured it would be an appropriate place for both gaming and discussing non rationality related topics with the LW crowd.
The forums are not doing anything right now. What it’ll do once it actually develops into somehting at all remains to be seen, but presumably it’ll be either somehting different or not at all because if you post a discussion section type of thing you’ll want as many people as possible seeing it and thus post it in the discussion section for traffic.