aand it's dead Jim: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/otq/whats_up_with_arbital/
The front page is now a "coming soon" for the proposed blogging platform. Oh well. - d. On 11 October 2016 at 22:52, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > Followup on this: Arbital is still going (recent changes shows > consistent activity, mostly from MIRI people) and now has the tag line > "Arbital is the place for crowdsourced, intuitive math explanations." > This is an area it might actually get somewhere with - en:wp's > mathematics articles are notoriously opaque and not good for > explaining a concept to people who don't already understand it. And > CC-by-sa educational articles on math are a win for everyone. > > On 14 March 2016 at 01:03, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 critic on Tumblr: >> http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/140995096534/a-year-ago-i-remember-being-baffled-by-eliezer >> >> (there's a pile more comments linked from the notes on that post, >> mostly from quasi-fans; I have an acerbic comment in there, but you >> should look at the site yourself first.) >> >> No idea if this will go anywhere, but might be of interest; new >> approaches generally are. They started in December, first publicised >> it a week ago and have been scaling up. First day it collapsed due to >> load from a Facebook post announcement ... so maybe hold off before >> announcing it everywhere :-) >> >> >> - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
