Epistemic status—a quick contribution. Possibly useless for anyone else. Also, a sort of feature suggestion.
This post provides a link to a Google sheet which ranks tags/concepts discussed on LessWrong by frequency of mention. I am not sure if it will be useful, but it was for me, so I thought I’d quickly share it.
What did I do?
On 22/9/22 I copied the tags from the Concepts Portal into a Google sheet. I did some text splitting and concatenation to split out the frequency counts and produce a long table ranked by frequency. I couldn’t copy over the links, but they are in the column A, which can be unhidden. Below are the top 20 rows.
Concept
Mentions
AI
3382
World Modeling
2353
Rationality
2278
Practical
1667
World Optimization
1527
Community
1110
Covid-19
860
Site Meta
548
Open Threads
458
AI Risk
439
Fiction
414
Politics
305
Book Reviews
303
Ethics & Morality
293
Decision Theory
282
Logic & Mathematics
265
Social & Cultural Dynamics
256
Economics
245
Scholarship & Learning
245
Forecasting & Prediction
243
Why did I do this?
I am meeting more people in the rationalist community, and wanted a quick way to understand their key interests. I thought that seeing the frequency of tags/concepts used on LW would be a helpful overview.
What next?
If it seems useful for other people and is relatively easy, then it may be a good idea to allow users to rank tags by frequency of use on the Concepts Portal.
Right now, I’d personally be interested in seeing a list/ranking of the newest and trending tags (e.g., those that have growing fastest in the last month/year) on the concept’s portal page, but that could just be related to my perhaps unusual interest in understanding the focus of the rationality community. It might also be me projecting an unrealistic level of sustained interest going forward.
A ranked link of LessWrong tags/concepts
Epistemic status—a quick contribution. Possibly useless for anyone else. Also, a sort of feature suggestion.
This post provides a link to a Google sheet which ranks tags/concepts discussed on LessWrong by frequency of mention. I am not sure if it will be useful, but it was for me, so I thought I’d quickly share it.
What did I do?
On 22/9/22 I copied the tags from the Concepts Portal into a Google sheet. I did some text splitting and concatenation to split out the frequency counts and produce a long table ranked by frequency. I couldn’t copy over the links, but they are in the column A, which can be unhidden. Below are the top 20 rows.
Why did I do this?
I am meeting more people in the rationalist community, and wanted a quick way to understand their key interests. I thought that seeing the frequency of tags/concepts used on LW would be a helpful overview.
What next?
If it seems useful for other people and is relatively easy, then it may be a good idea to allow users to rank tags by frequency of use on the Concepts Portal.
Right now, I’d personally be interested in seeing a list/ranking of the newest and trending tags (e.g., those that have growing fastest in the last month/year) on the concept’s portal page, but that could just be related to my perhaps unusual interest in understanding the focus of the rationality community. It might also be me projecting an unrealistic level of sustained interest going forward.