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
wrote:
> They have correctly identified that a lot of our
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
I for one look forward to the open and inclusive educational
experience provided by people who collectively lose their shit when
presented with a highly improbable AI thought experiment[0]
[0] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:03 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> Bei
As another data point, I joined the WMF last April and there was no
non-disparagement clause in my employment agreement. I suspect that at some
point someone realized it wasn't much good and dropped it from the standard
agreement, but older employees like Oliver were never given an updated
agreemen
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
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 4:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:08 PM Antoine Musso wrote:
>
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge such agreements are not public, but honestly
>> there is no conspiracy behind that. There are public clues though:
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
I enabled it last week and found two new messages. Thank you. Very useful.
/a
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 6:31 AM, David Cuenca Tudela
wrote:
> Finally it is here! Now I don't miss conversations that are happening
> elsewhere.
> I know that many don't like it, but combined with Flow it works like a
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
>
> In mid-2013, the legal team put the standard employee NDA clauses, and a
> couple others, on-wiki at:
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-disclosure_agreements#Wikimedia_Foundation.27s_non-disclosure_agreements
>
> Luis
Thanks, Luis.
On 13 March 2016 at 20:07, Antoine Musso wrote:
> Volunteers (ie neither staff or contractors) might have to sign a NDA
> whenever they get privileged access. The process is on:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_NDA
>
> What I suspect is granting public read access to the NDA would
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:08 PM Antoine Musso wrote:
>
> To the best of my knowledge such agreements are not public, but honestly
> there is no conspiracy behind that. There are public clues though:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy
> https://wikitech.w
Le 13/03/2016 03:09, Andreas Kolbe a écrit :
> things like standard boilerplate language to be signed by
>> > all employees doesn't strike me as something in and of itself to be kept
>> > private - there is a valid interest in showing that our policies are
>> > fair and humane for employees, respon
Hm.. in my experience, legal departments focus above all on managing risk
on behalf of their clients and using the legal system to the maximal
benefit of the organization of which they are a part. In my view, putting
Transparency in Legal is a recipe for minimal disclosure, not maximal. The
Trans
I was reacting to Gerard , i did not necessarily take into account the
preceding exchange
I was talking about the wikipedia in a more general fashion
and that refernce to religion was a paraphrased quotation from prof
J.De Mul
I sorry if it did indeed leap from the RFC to a more general w
I wholeheartedly agree with Gerard.
During the conference by the KNAW ( academy of sciences) in Amsterdam
when the Wikipedia community received from HM Willem Alexander of the
Netherlands the Erasmusaward
Philosofy Professer Jos De Mul ( Erasmus university of Rotterdam) , who
specialises in the
Finally it is here! Now I don't miss conversations that are happening
elsewhere.
I know that many don't like it, but combined with Flow it works like a
charm :)
Thanks
Micru
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Biplab Anand wrote:
> This is amazing.
> Thanks.
> On 13 Mar 2016 03:20, "Andy Mabbett"
Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that the Quarterly Report for Fiscal Year
2015-2016 Quarter 2 - covering October-December 2015 - is now
available on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Quarterly_Report,_FY_2015-16_Q2_%28October-December%29.pdf
A blo
Hoi
When this is it, when these people get away with it, their behaviour is as
bad as much of what we have seen lately. I do not care who they are. There
is too much going where people decide on policies and effectively destroy
our culture.,
We do no longer care about our quality, it is all about
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