I have suggestions other than posts to add or remove, for instance like how the crux of My Wild and Reckless Youth seems to be that you need to use “retrospective predictions” but this term is not defined and it’s not searchable because the common term for this is “retrodiction”. Gwern explained in the comments, but that sequence could really use a definition and example. Or how “Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence” has a terrible title because it sounds too much like he’s saying “make appeals to ignorance”. I already know what an appeal to ignorance is but if one has never heard of it before, one may be encouraged to make appeals to ignorance because of this article. I think it would be beneficial if he put more emphasis on differentiating between his point and appeals to ignorance—the distinction he makes is brief and not emphasized.
I suspect that edit suggestions won’t be as well-received since it would require that Eliezer spends time editing the sequences, as opposed to simply approving addition and removal requests. You might have a volunteer editor though, if you want one.
Anyway, what should I do with edit suggestions like these? Comment in the sequences, comment here, comment to /dev/null?
I have suggestions other than posts to add or remove, for instance like how the crux of My Wild and Reckless Youth seems to be that you need to use “retrospective predictions” but this term is not defined and it’s not searchable because the common term for this is “retrodiction”. Gwern explained in the comments, but that sequence could really use a definition and example. Or how “Absence of Evidence is Evidence of Absence” has a terrible title because it sounds too much like he’s saying “make appeals to ignorance”. I already know what an appeal to ignorance is but if one has never heard of it before, one may be encouraged to make appeals to ignorance because of this article. I think it would be beneficial if he put more emphasis on differentiating between his point and appeals to ignorance—the distinction he makes is brief and not emphasized.
I suspect that edit suggestions won’t be as well-received since it would require that Eliezer spends time editing the sequences, as opposed to simply approving addition and removal requests. You might have a volunteer editor though, if you want one.
Anyway, what should I do with edit suggestions like these? Comment in the sequences, comment here, comment to /dev/null?