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Open thread, January 29 - ∞
username27y40

I have become very used to the interface here and the various ways it can be manipulated, so I prefer it greatly even if this is just due to inertia. Glad to see more than 6 names on the Last 30 Days list. But it's clear that this is a dead zone and I've become resigned to the idea that this will soon be gone.

I do enjoy what's going on at LW2 even though it's still open beta, a bit broken in a few areas and cluttered by too many specific requests and follow-up about personal preferences for site look and feel. And moderator chat that really feels like it can be kept behind closed doors -- I hope this is just a feature of beta that will be ironed out. And I fully applaud the approach to trolls (so far anyway).

Overall it's fun to see people jockeying for the position of Next Great Poster Who Will Lead Us From Darkness, especially those who aren't trying to copy Previous Heroes. Some falling terribly short but it's interesting to see the variety of voices. It does not seem to be heading to an obvious local minimum, something I worried about in the early days of LW2.0. Maybe a few local minima but that's fine with me.

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Open thread, January 29 - ∞
username27y60

Thank you very much. I read LW primarily for the discussions that are spurred by posts/articles and the comments are effectively impossible for me to read with the standard interface. On a small glance/browse I'm very encouraged about trying Greaterwrong as my regular reading mode.

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Open Letter to MIRI + Tons of Interesting Discussion
username28y20

B+ Too brief.

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Less Wrong Lacks Representatives and Paths Forward
username28y10

Please keep posting here. Your powers of persuasion are amazing.

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Open thread, October 30 - November 5, 2017
username28y30

Sorry, I used the ambiguous term "traffic", meant "amount of new discussion/comments" rather than web traffic. were it not for curi's recent flurry there would almost be nothing here.

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Questions about AGI's Importance
username28y00

I went down the rabbit hole of your ensuing discussion and it seems to have broken LW, but didn't look like you were very convinced yet. Thanks for taking one for the team.

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Open thread, October 30 - November 5, 2017
username28y50

Another take: This site is dead with practically no traffic. LW2.0 has various issues and missing features: from a development team perspective it's still in a lengthy beta phase but practically speaking and from a general user viewpoint it can be considered to have fully replaced this site.

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I Want to Review FDT; Are my Criticisms Legitimate?
username28y20

You could also simply continue working on the review: you are clearly motivated to explore these issues deeper so why not start fleshing out the paper?

Note that I said "continue" rather than start. The barrier is often not the ideas themselves but getting it written in something approaching a complete paper. this is still the issue for me and I have 50+ peer reviewed papers in the past 20 years (although not in this field).

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Feedback on LW 2.0
username28y00

The recommendation by "someone else" is anything but anonymous, adamzerner's comment quotes and links directly from Matthew Butterick, author of the online book that provides said guidance (and also explicitly makes the point about print vs. online).

While I fully agree with you about strong distaste for the visual design of LW2 (at least using default display settings in the current beta) you have failed to make a valid argument here.

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Feedback on LW 2.0
username28y00

I can't get a rss feed specifically for featured posts right now can I ?

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7Open thread, Mar. 27 - Apr. 02, 2017
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820000 UC Berkeley lectures that were deleted from Youtube
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4Open thread, Feb. 13 - Feb. 19, 2017
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4Open thread, Dec. 26, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2017
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7John Ioannidis: Why Most Clinical Research Is Not Useful (2016)
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4Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
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9This AI Boom Will Also Bust
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6Open thread, Jan. 25 - Jan. 31, 2016
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6Open Thread, January 11-17, 2016
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14[LINK] 23andme now approved by the FDA to deliver health reports
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