They have correctly identified that a lot of our articles on scientific concepts are jargon-filled babble that is unintelligible to anyone who isn't already an expert in the field (and if they're an expert, why are they consulting an encyclopaedia?), but I'm not that confident that Yudkowsky of all people is going to be able to penetrate that and be able to explain complex concepts at the level of a layperson.
I will confess that the software looks interesting though.
Cheers, Craig
On 14 March 2016 at 11:03, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Being put together by Eliezer Yudkowsky of LessWrong. Content is cc-by-sa 3.0, don't know about the software.
https://arbital.com/p/arbital_ambitions/
Rather than the "encyclopedia" approach, it tries to be more pedagogical, teaching the reader at their level.
Analysis from a sometime Yudkowsky critic on Tumblr:
http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/140995096534/a-year-ago-i-remember-bei...
(there's a pile more comments linked from the notes on that post, mostly from quasi-fans; I have an acerbic comment in there, but you should look at the site yourself first.)
No idea if this will go anywhere, but might be of interest; new approaches generally are. They started in December, first publicised it a week ago and have been scaling up. First day it collapsed due to load from a Facebook post announcement ... so maybe hold off before announcing it everywhere :-)
- d.
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