it’s unlikely that the splits we end up with would seem silly.
I was rather meaning that the whole sorting-hat thing is pretty silly.
I think a lot of this is a technological issue.
I’m never run an online questionnaire, but I imagine there are simple out of the box ways to do it. Similerley, I believe that LW’s code is adapted from reddit, and so I would guess it would be easy enough to add the code for subreddits. The clustering algorithms are simple too and have many open-source implmentations.
In fact, just splitting discussion into, say ‘technical maths’, ‘rationality’, ‘singularity stuff’, ‘lifehacks’, ‘fun stuff’ could be an improvement maybe?
I was rather meaning that the whole sorting-hat thing is pretty silly.
I’m never run an online questionnaire, but I imagine there are simple out of the box ways to do it. Similerley, I believe that LW’s code is adapted from reddit, and so I would guess it would be easy enough to add the code for subreddits. The clustering algorithms are simple too and have many open-source implmentations.
In fact, just splitting discussion into, say ‘technical maths’, ‘rationality’, ‘singularity stuff’, ‘lifehacks’, ‘fun stuff’ could be an improvement maybe?