The informational challenge is simply the fact that someone would have to go through every single essay in the Sequences, and note which specific parts of the post—which paragraphs, which sentences, which word ranges—constituted claims of scientific (and, in this case specifically, psychological) fact. Quite a tedious job, but without this data, the whole project is moot.
This could take a while, and it’d be important to have it so that if someone ‘abandons’ the project, their work is still available. If I decided to read (and take the necessary notes on), if not a “page” a day, then at least 7 “pages” a day, then that part of the project would be complete...in a year. (The TOC says 333 pages.)*
You (or anyone else who wishes to contribute) should feel free to use these talk pages to post notes, commentary, or anything else relevant. (If you prefer to use Google Docs, or any other such tool, to do the required editing, then I’d ask that you make the doc publicly viewable, and place a link to it on the relevant Sequence post’s Talk page.)
(A list of every single essay that is part of Rationality:A–Z—including the interludes, introductions, etc.—along with links to Talk pages, can be found here.)
Edit: You’ll also find that you can now view each page’s source, in either native wiki format or Markdown format, via links at the top-left of the page.
This could take a while, and it’d be important to have it so that if someone ‘abandons’ the project, their work is still available. If I decided to read (and take the necessary notes on), if not a “page” a day, then at least 7 “pages” a day, then that part of the project would be complete...in a year. (The TOC says 333 pages.)*
A way that might not catch everything would be to search readthesequences.com for “psy” (short, should get around most spelling mistakes). https://www.readthesequences.com/Search?q=psy&action=search.
A general ‘color this word red’ feature would be interesting.
*I might do this in a google doc. Alternate tool suggestions are welcome. Sharing available upon request (and providing email).
I have added wikipedia-style Talk pages to readthesequences.com. (Example.)
You (or anyone else who wishes to contribute) should feel free to use these talk pages to post notes, commentary, or anything else relevant. (If you prefer to use Google Docs, or any other such tool, to do the required editing, then I’d ask that you make the doc publicly viewable, and place a link to it on the relevant Sequence post’s Talk page.)
(A list of every single essay that is part of Rationality:A–Z—including the interludes, introductions, etc.—along with links to Talk pages, can be found here.)
Edit: You’ll also find that you can now view each page’s source, in either native wiki format or Markdown format, via links at the top-left of the page.