use of tags on a post embeded as their intro into the post even without hover, perhaps at the bottom of the post, perhaps at the top. Users don’t seem to consistently realize that the wiki tags are lists of relevant topics.
recently edited wiki pages in the sidebar.
or at least just put the wiki in the sidebar at all, or clarify what it is, right now it’s just under “concepts” and clicking that gives you a big, hard-to-read list. You can hover each one to get the beginning of the summary, but to do that you need to have already been motivated to do so, and it’s a trivial inconvenience.
suggestion in the lesswrong editor to make phrases that match as titles of wiki pages into links to those wiki pages
or just find all places a wiki page is mentioned as a link from the wiki page; this is already possible with the current upgraded search engine, just would be more convenient to have a button for it
extra bonus points for showing the search results on the wiki page itself in a way that doesn’t take too much attention but which makes it a clear feature. eg, put a search for untagged posts and comments below the list of tagged posts.
make sure wiki page edits show up in recent discussion. I vaguely remember they might already, but also remember finding them slightly confusing. might be false memory either way.
related pages via semantic search? longstanding wishlist item. search recently improved, possibly already solved.
in particular, suggested or similar tags views on every post.
this could be done by embedding every post (or every paragraph in every post) using the openai api (or another embedding model from MTEB) and using a semantic-search-with-BM25 similarity comparison to find relevant wiki topics. Bonus points for two way linking.
view on wikipedia, ask gpt, etc buttons, to accelerate importing existing overviews?
LLM programs to detect out of date wiki pages, eg given page=<wiki page content>, post=<post tagged with that wiki tag>, run gpt4 [{"role": "system", "content": f"Here is a wiki page. Bot please review whether user's article has anything new to add on top of the following wiki page.\n\n> {page}\n\nBot write a VERY CONCISE, ONE SENTENCE, NO NEWLINE overview of what topics the user's article adds beyond the above wiki page."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Min word use active."}, {"user": post}] and then use this to generate summaries of what each post with a tag has to add to a topic it’s tagged with. I’d guesstimate without even fermi estimating it that this would cost $5k to run all lesswrong posts with gpt4. Note that the brevity prompt is for human use, not to save AI tokens.
I agree. I was also about to post a reply along these lines. The key point is visibility. It already helps that the search lists wiki pages first, but I’d like
linking to related wiki pages at the top as sketched by gears to ascensio above
maybe unifying wiki pages and tags, making it easier to link to wiki pages
allowing discussions on wiki pages
showing recent edits or comments to wiki pages in the /allPosts page
Out of distribution ideas:
more karma for wiki pages and wiki page edits or linking to wiki pages
prominent placement. eg:
use of tags on a post embeded as their intro into the post even without hover, perhaps at the bottom of the post, perhaps at the top. Users don’t seem to consistently realize that the wiki tags are lists of relevant topics.
recently edited wiki pages in the sidebar.
or at least just put the wiki in the sidebar at all, or clarify what it is, right now it’s just under “concepts” and clicking that gives you a big, hard-to-read list. You can hover each one to get the beginning of the summary, but to do that you need to have already been motivated to do so, and it’s a trivial inconvenience.
suggestion in the lesswrong editor to make phrases that match as titles of wiki pages into links to those wiki pages
or just find all places a wiki page is mentioned as a link from the wiki page; this is already possible with the current upgraded search engine, just would be more convenient to have a button for it
extra bonus points for showing the search results on the wiki page itself in a way that doesn’t take too much attention but which makes it a clear feature. eg, put a search for untagged posts and comments below the list of tagged posts.
make sure wiki page edits show up in recent discussion. I vaguely remember they might already, but also remember finding them slightly confusing. might be false memory either way.
related pages via semantic search? longstanding wishlist item. search recently improved, possibly already solved.
in particular, suggested or similar tags views on every post.
this could be done by embedding every post (or every paragraph in every post) using the openai api (or another embedding model from MTEB) and using a semantic-search-with-BM25 similarity comparison to find relevant wiki topics. Bonus points for two way linking.
view on wikipedia, ask gpt, etc buttons, to accelerate importing existing overviews?
LLM programs to detect out of date wiki pages, eg given page=<wiki page content>, post=<post tagged with that wiki tag>, run gpt4
[{"role": "system", "content": f"Here is a wiki page. Bot please review whether user's article has anything new to add on top of the following wiki page.\n\n> {page}\n\nBot write a VERY CONCISE, ONE SENTENCE, NO NEWLINE overview of what topics the user's article adds beyond the above wiki page."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Min word use active."}, {"user": post}]and then use this to generate summaries of what each post with a tag has to add to a topic it’s tagged with. I’d guesstimate without even fermi estimating it that this would cost $5k to run all lesswrong posts with gpt4. Note that the brevity prompt is for human use, not to save AI tokens.I agree. I was also about to post a reply along these lines. The key point is visibility. It already helps that the search lists wiki pages first, but I’d like
linking to related wiki pages at the top as sketched by gears to ascensio above
maybe unifying wiki pages and tags, making it easier to link to wiki pages
allowing discussions on wiki pages
showing recent edits or comments to wiki pages in the /allPosts page
Out of distribution ideas:
more karma for wiki pages and wiki page edits or linking to wiki pages
linking from corresponding pages on Wikipedia