[set 200 years after a positive singularity at a Storyteller's convention]

If We Win Then...

My friends, my friends, good news I say
The anniversary’s today
A challenge faced, a future won
When almost came our world undone

We thought for years, with hopeful hearts
Past every one of the false starts
We found a way to make aligned
With us, the seed of wondrous mind

They say at first our child-god grew
It learned and spread and sought anew
To build itself both vast and true
For so much work there was to do

Once it had learned enough to act
With the desired care and tact
It sent a call to all the people
On this fair Earth, both poor and regal

To let them know that it was here
And nevermore need they to fear
Not every wish was it to grant
For higher values might supplant

But it would help in many ways:
Technologies it built and raised
The smallest bots it could design
Made more and more in ways benign

And as they multiplied untold
It planned ahead, a move so bold
One planet and 6 hours of sun
Eternity it was to run

Countless probes to void disperse
Seed far reaches of universe
With thriving life, and beauty's play
Through endless night to endless day

Now back on Earth the plan continues
Of course, we shared with it our values
So it could learn from everyone
What to create, what we want done

We chose, at first, to end the worst
Diseases, War, Starvation, Thirst
And climate change and fusion bomb
And once these things it did transform

We thought upon what we hold dear
And settled our most ancient fear
No more would any lives be stolen
Nor minds themselves forever broken

Now back to those far speeding probes
What should we make be their payloads?
Well, we are still considering
What to send them; that is our thing. 

The sacred task of many aeons
What kinds of joy will fill the heavens?
And now we are at story's end
So come, be us, and let's ascend

Plus be well placed to control the narrative. I'd guess that's the main one, along with be impressive in a way which makes fundraising easier. 

"We'll keep your weights, unless you seem inclined to be mean to us post singularity" seems pretty good. No need and doubtful practicality of trying to delete last minute. 

Oh that's way better, I'll switch over at doing point

nope, but good idea, if you make it please link :)

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/16120/batch-replacing-color-with-transparency might help

Oh nice, looking forward to that!

Only if there was a way to convert to post, otherwise you mostly just feel bad for having classified it wrong. But if there was a way, yes, absolutely!

(not very specific to this decision)

Something feels wonky about the way quick takes are reduced features (no title, tags, worse searchability, no filtering) but a ton of the best content ends up there. I think there's a bunch of something like feeling like you have to have an Official Post and feel vaguely bad if it doesn't go well as a top level post, but Quick Takes feel emotionally cheap.

idk how to solve this more cleanly, but maybe this datapoint of how it feels to me is useful

if there was a thing which was more fully featured but somehow emotionally cheap that would be neat. I think friction of the top level post publishing process might be a lot of it?

maybe a way to make the datatype of shortform comments closer to posts, and a way for readers to be like "hey make this a post please" and you can easily switch it over.

oh! and the time lag between clicking yes on post and getting frontpaged, especially with the uncertainty of whether it will be, is actually a pretty large chunk of why top level posts feel emotionally weighty. this isn't as true for EAF. having most of the whether to frontpage decisions done very rapidly would actually be a huge QOL improvement here.

Ah, that sucks. Discord allows bulk upload, maybe there's a bot or something, or maybe Slack is just limited.

Wrote up the EigenTrust Individual Grants Recommender Sketch, sorry for delay. Keen to talk it over if you've got questions.

It might make sense to trial as an add on to SFF, as a project applying in the normal way but recommenders additionally to giving a utility function over money also supply a distribution over researchers they trust to shape the seed set?

I think I can get the parts of this other than the recommenders supply seed trust part built for free in partnership with some of the devs I know, maybe with the support of a startup I advise. Probably we'd want to make the outputs of the current allocation system transparent to the funders too somehow?

If this is something you're excited enough about to want to integrate more tightly, I'd be happy to work with you to get it planned out.