Aye, the user-assessment model is kind of interesting, but agreed.
When I think "who can explain complex things in relateable terms?", my
answer has never been (and will never be) Bayesians.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Craig Franklin
<cfranklin(a)halonetwork.net> wrote:
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(a)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-be…
(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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