New 'landing page' website: Friendly-AI.com

Looks great!

I may be alone in this, and I haven't mentioned this before because it's a bit of a delicate subject. I assume we all agree that first impressions matter a great deal, and that appearances play a large role in that. I think that, how to say this, ehm, it would, perhaps, be in the best interest of all of us, if you could use photos that don't make the AI thinkers give off this serial killer vibe.

(I think the "maintained by" notice at the bottom should have a definite article, as recently discussed.)

Typo in the "keywords" meta tag: "Friednly AI" - swap d and n.

What was I doing in the HTML source, you may ask? I was wondering if you'd used some sort of tool or service like unbounce to create the page, which looks a few notches better than the other pages you mention.

OK maybe this isn't important, but I'm confused by the "media" pages on friendly-ai.com and intelligenceexplosion.com. They both say "about the intelligence explosion", and they both list almost the same set of links.

On the topic of how the site looks in different browsers, and finding out whether the layout is borked on some browsers, you could use http://browsershots.org/.

At the moment though, it fails due to an internal server error when it tries to fetch http://friendly-ai.com/robots.txt. If you fix that, you should be able to easily see how the site looks in a bunch of different browsers on different operating systems.

In FAQ #6:

Friendly AI is a problem of cognitive science.

I think this un-argued-for assertion makes the site seem (and be) less rigorous. Unfortunately, I can't think of a better concise justification for why FAI researchers should read about cognitive science.

the "links and media" blurb falls off the bottom of the grey part.

#link_boxes {
    margin: 30px -40px -15px -40px;
    padding: 0 40px;
    height: 180px;
    background: #f6f6f6;
}

#link_boxes a.box, 
#link_boxes a.box:link {
    width: 160px;
    height: 150px;
    float: left;
    display: block;
    background: #f6f6f6;
    border: none;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 15px 11px;
}

I found your answer to the sixth question of the FAQ especially helpful. It's nice to have a reference of great books and papers on essential topics. Upvoted due to that.

On that note, does anyone have a PDF or ebook of Rational Choice in an Uncertain World? If so, I'd very much appreciate it if you could share it with me. I've searched for it, can't find a copy online.

If you can share, or if you know of a more proper place to ask this question, please let me know. Thanks!

Nice!

From FAQ #5:

Independent researchers associated with the Singularity Institute: Daniel Dewey, Kaj Sotala, Peter de Blanc, Joshua Fox, Steve Rayhawk, and others

Would it be feasible to make this list exhaustive so that you can delete the "and others"? I think the "and others" makes the site seem less prestigious.