Maybe Slightly Skew Systems Of Government

This wikitag should be optimized for:

1. Illustrating this feature. A reader unfamiliar with the feature should go like "ah, yeah that seems useful" or even "ooh, LessWrong is awesome!"
2. Explain confusing reacts to those not already in the know

I originally arranged confusing-first to optimize 2., but Ben Pace's comment reminded me of 1.

See also: Ben Pace introducing new reacts + people's replies.

Having some common ones first makes sense for illustrating the feature! I arranged them based on which reacts would probably be the most confusing.

Thanks for the wiki page stub. I turned it into a full table (See LessWrong Reacts)

I think this presents a nice opportunity of explaining LessWrong's culture to new users.

Have you considered linking to the wiki page from the hover-menu of a reaction?

I think the most confusing one, even after hovering over the reaction is "I beseech you"

Small bug that might confuse users: the new draft shows up where I wrote it, only after I reload the page.

Repro:

1. On post page write comment replying to another comment
2. "Save As Draft"
3. Observation: draft does not show up under the parent comment
4. Reload page
5. Observation: draft does show up under the parent comment

Expectation: at 3., the draft should appear under the parent comment

If I had to hazard a guess, I would suspect what the codebase calls "a terrible hack" is at fault. If I were to venture further, I would guess getDraftSelector implies the default is include-my-draft-replies, while line 343 of the terrible hack implicitly assumes drafts are excluded by default.

I imported the reactions from the LessWrong source code into a table, that users can now add explanations to. I did this programmatically, which took me a few tries to get the formatting correct. (For example getting the correct image sizes, not just on the page, but in the editor.) I eventually generated HTML and updated with type ckEditorMarkup using the API.

It seems you recall correctly. The old definition seemed to additionally include "efficient".

Muehlhauser & Salamon (2012):

For our purposes, “intelligence” measures an agent’s capacity for efficient cross-domain optimization of the world according to the agent’s preferences.

Yudkowsky (2013) (also expands on this definition):

I usually use a notion of “intelligence ≡ efficient cross-domain optimization,”

See also Efficient Cross-Domain Optimization — Eliezer Yudkowsky

For future readers: Raemon expanded on this in a top-level post at "Intelligence" → "Relentless, Creative Resourcefulness"

Here are some things I did:

1. tell my friends and family about the book
2. write a review on Amazon & Goodreads
3. review scam copies on Amazon with 1 star
   • Searching for IABED on amazon.com, you will find that after the real book, several LLM written scam copies show up.
   • the same is true for amazon.co.uk, .de, ... (these are distinct as far as reviews go)
   • I looked at the sample text and if it made no sense and was LLM written (it always was), wrote a 1 star review (only on amazon.de)
   • I only rated on amazon.de, because my Amazon account is only eligible for that. You could do it for the other Amazon sites.
   • Usually my reviews are display on the next day
   • (MIRI is aware but "it seems like there isn't that much we can do about it, unfortunately.")
   • (I also tried reporting them; but I am not sure they are breaking any rules.)
4. request the book in libraries
   • I found a list of German public libraries, where one can easily request them to buy a book and went through that. You could do this for libraries in your region.
   • I did 15 requests. 4 libraries bought it. 2 said they won't buy it.

I'd attend a march, if 1000 people also pledged to march in Germany.

I might contact my representatives (How to email your politician).

Here are some things I did after reading If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies:

1. tell my friends and family about the book
2. write a review on Amazon & Goodreads
3. review scam copies on Amazon with 1 star
   • Searching for IABED on amazon.com, you will find that after the real book, several LLM written scam copies show up.
   • the same is true for amazon.co.uk, .de, ... (these are distinct as far as reviews go)
   • I looked at the sample text and if it made no sense and was LLM written (it always was), wrote a 1 star review (only on amazon.de)
   • I only rated on amazon.de, because my Amazon account is only eligible for that. You could do it for the other Amazon sites.
   • Usually my reviews are display on the next day
   • (MIRI is aware but "it seems like there isn't that much we can do about it, unfortunately.")
   • (I also tried reporting them; but I am not sure they are breaking any rules.)
4. request the book in libraries
   • I found a list of German public libraries, where one can easily request them to buy a book and went through that. You could do this for libraries in your region.
   • I did 15 requests. 4 libraries bought it. 2 said they won't buy it.

I'd attend a march, if 1000 people also pledged to march in Germany.

I might contact my representatives (How to email your politician).