How would people feel about an IA wiki, to collect and organize information about software, drugs/supplements, etc., including links to the best available research on each, plus perhaps space for anecdotes?
(I am volunteering to host and moderate it if there is interest, though I’m not an expert on the actual subject matter, so I’d need plenty of help with writing and researching it.)
I’ll go ahead and get it started here. I need to head out now but I’ll start filling things in later.
Edit: If anyone has any better ideas for the site’s title, please do let me know. I’m not attached to the current one, it’s just the first thing I thought of.
Interesting initiative, bookmarked. Being a rather cautious layman in this area I look forward to a good and more importantly trustworthy resource on this. I feel the need to be extra careful with anything that targets the mind specifically. I’m concerned about side effects showing up in old age, especially anything that could increase the odds of Alzheimer’s or something similar that could mess with my cryonics plans.
Perhaps start the thing by stealing articles from wikipedia so to have a seed base? Also this sounds silly but a cool wiki emblem goes a long way.
I don’t know why but when I heard better brains I associated it with something similar like a level up icon, a + inside the a line shaped like a human brain. In some respect similar to the h+ logo.
Perhaps start the thing by stealing articles from wikipedia so to have seed base?
I’m going to discourage copying entire articles, as Wikipedia articles will have a lot of information that this wiki won’t need (information on substances’ history, marketing, etc.); I want the pages to be focused on practicality. There’ll probably be some information duplicated, and Wikipedia will be a good source, but if there’s an existing Wikipedia article we’ll just have a badge linking to it, the way the LW wiki does it.
Also this sounds silly but a cool wiki emblem goes a long way.
Indeed. I’m decent at designing things, so I’ll put something up today, but maybe there could be a logo contest at some point if there’s enough activity to warrant it.
How would people feel about an IA wiki, to collect and organize information about software, drugs/supplements, etc., including links to the best available research on each, plus perhaps space for anecdotes?
(I am volunteering to host and moderate it if there is interest, though I’m not an expert on the actual subject matter, so I’d need plenty of help with writing and researching it.)
I’ll go ahead and get it started here. I need to head out now but I’ll start filling things in later.
Edit: If anyone has any better ideas for the site’s title, please do let me know. I’m not attached to the current one, it’s just the first thing I thought of.
Interesting initiative, bookmarked. Being a rather cautious layman in this area I look forward to a good and more importantly trustworthy resource on this. I feel the need to be extra careful with anything that targets the mind specifically. I’m concerned about side effects showing up in old age, especially anything that could increase the odds of Alzheimer’s or something similar that could mess with my cryonics plans.
Perhaps start the thing by stealing articles from wikipedia so to have a seed base? Also this sounds silly but a cool wiki emblem goes a long way.
I don’t know why but when I heard better brains I associated it with something similar like a level up icon, a + inside the a line shaped like a human brain. In some respect similar to the h+ logo.
I’m going to discourage copying entire articles, as Wikipedia articles will have a lot of information that this wiki won’t need (information on substances’ history, marketing, etc.); I want the pages to be focused on practicality. There’ll probably be some information duplicated, and Wikipedia will be a good source, but if there’s an existing Wikipedia article we’ll just have a badge linking to it, the way the LW wiki does it.
Indeed. I’m decent at designing things, so I’ll put something up today, but maybe there could be a logo contest at some point if there’s enough activity to warrant it.
The wiki is down. Was the content saved?
I made a page on the wiki collecting all of the links that were mentioned so far in this thread: http://ia.fubaria.org/index.php/External_links
I also made a few other pages, but most of those will probably end up being deleted.