AS INCREDIBLY POWERFUL AUTISTS WE ARE OBLIGATED TO INFORM YOU THAT WE CANNOT BE BULLIED DUE TO HIGHLY ADVANCED "GAME THEORY"

Just dropped a new feature. "Debates" lesswrong.com/posts/kXiAGRWF…

Thanks! Some time this year, we should definitely do that... —Ben

The immigration problem does indeed suck. Note that I don't think it's entirely impossible to get around the problem of not having a technical visa (e.g. the O1 visa). We'd definitely be up for Trying Hard to solve this for someone we really wanted to work with. —Ben

And I also don't know how to build a strong and spontaneous creative relationship with someone primarily over Zoom. I could try but it doesn't seem worth the risk to me, as I expect it wouldn't work. —Ben

I don't really know how to work with someone on building an in-person campus (with office rooms and housing and so on) with someone who isn't here. Interviewing our users here and solving problems for them requires being here. —Ben

Again, we’re hiring. Devs and world-class generalists, $150-300k/year, Berkeley. We're a 501c3. Apply: lightconeinfrastructure.com/

Oh, we figured it was a bit confusing to lump all our activities under the "LessWrong" brand, so we've organized as "Lightcone Infrastructure". LessWrong continues as one (but only one) major project. 8/N

We're basically going to work on **whatever** is required to build and support a community of people that is capable of helping humanity overcome the challenges we face this century. 7/N

Last October LW shipped grantmaking software used to move tens of millions of dollars. In December, self-published print books and generated machine learning art, in May ran a 60-person retreat, in August designed and launched a co-working space. Not things we'd done before! 6/N

To accomplish this we need versatile generalists who are prepared to jump from task to task, and domain to domain, gaining skills and creatively solving whatever problems we need to take on. "Haven't done this before" is the new normal. 5/N

We've also realized that our community needs supporting offline too. We want to support the people who are working to optimize humanity's future in whatever ways are helpful: software, office space, medical care, housing, conferences, research assistants. Whatever! 4/N

LessWrong already does this a lot. By being a mix of Medium, Reddit, Quora/StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc, we help people learn, think, share, and discuss. But we can do more. As innovators in tools for collective research, we can go well beyond existing sites and designs. 3/N

We can make the computation better by improving the existing nodes (more productive/rational/smart), adding more nodes (recruiting), and improving the information flow (discussion, knowledge-aggregation, coordination of research). 2/N

LessWrong is hiring devs and generalists! $150-300k Apply: bit.ly/3DC3Cjj Why join? There’s a community of thinkers trying to save civilization. Think of it as a “distributed computation” trying to figure out what’s true. Our goal is to make the computation better 1/N

It's true! This year for Petrov, LessWrong and the EA Forum have nukes pointed at each. Two forums, two buttons, and hopefully two sets of trustworthy users with launch codes.

Chapter 90, Roles, Pt 1. The Defense Professor speaks.