[CLAIMED!] ODD JOB OFFER: I think I want to cross-post Intro to Brain-Like-AGI Safety as a giant 200-page PDF on arxiv (it’s about 80,000 words), mostly to make it easier to cite (as is happening sporadically, e.g. here, here). I am willing to pay fair market price for whatever reformatting work is necessary to make that happen, which I don’t really know (make me an offer). I guess I’m imagining that the easiest plan would be to copy everything into Word (or LibreOffice Writer), clean up whatever formatting weirdness comes from that, and convert to PDF. LaTeX conversion is also acceptable but I imagine that would be much more work for no benefit.
I think inline clickable links are fine on arxiv (e.g. page 2 here), but I do have a few references to actual papers, and I assume those should probably be turned into a proper reference section at the end of each post / “chapter”. Within-series links (e.g. a link from Post 6 to a certain section of Post 4) should probably be converted to internal links within the PDF, rather than going out to the lesswrong / alignmentforum version. There are lots of textbooks / lecture notes on arxiv which can serve as models; I don’t really know the details myself. The original images are all in Powerpoint, if that’s relevant. The end product should ideally be easy for me to edit if I find things I want to update. (Arxiv makes updates very easy, one of my old arxiv papers is up to version 5.)
…Or maybe this whole thing is stupid. If I want it to be easier to cite, I could just add in a “citation information” note, like they did here? I dunno.
I don’t know how useful that on arvix would be (I would suspect not very) but I will attempt to deliver a PDF by two days from now, although using Typst rather than LaTeX (there is a conversion tool, I do not know how well it works) due to familiarity.
[CLAIMED!]
ODD JOB OFFER: I think I want to cross-post Intro to Brain-Like-AGI Safety as a giant 200-page PDF on arxiv (it’s about 80,000 words), mostly to make it easier to cite (as is happening sporadically, e.g. here, here). I am willing to pay fair market price for whatever reformatting work is necessary to make that happen, which I don’t really know (make me an offer). I guess I’m imagining that the easiest plan would be to copy everything into Word (or LibreOffice Writer), clean up whatever formatting weirdness comes from that, and convert to PDF. LaTeX conversion is also acceptable but I imagine that would be much more work for no benefit.I think inline clickable links are fine on arxiv (e.g. page 2 here), but I do have a few references to actual papers, and I assume those should probably be turned into a proper reference section at the end of each post / “chapter”. Within-series links (e.g. a link from Post 6 to a certain section of Post 4) should probably be converted to internal links within the PDF, rather than going out to the lesswrong / alignmentforum version. There are lots of textbooks / lecture notes on arxiv which can serve as models; I don’t really know the details myself. The original images are all in Powerpoint, if that’s relevant. The end product should ideally be easy for me to edit if I find things I want to update. (Arxiv makes updates very easy, one of my old arxiv papers is up to version 5.)
…Or maybe this whole thing is stupid. If I want it to be easier to cite, I could just add in a “citation information” note, like they did here? I dunno.
I don’t know how useful that on arvix would be (I would suspect not very) but I will attempt to deliver a PDF by two days from now, although using Typst rather than LaTeX (there is a conversion tool, I do not know how well it works) due to familiarity.
Do you have any particular formatting opinions?