Unfortunately, I’ve found that appending rationalist to queries doesn’t get the desired results. Instead you get this: link
If you could limit your search results to sites with a higher level of epistemics, would that be more compelling? There might be default set of sites, which you could customize and submit requests for additions to the corpus.
What price point would change your mind? Is the idea compelling enough that you would try a demo?
If you could limit your search results to sites with a higher level of epistemics, would that be more compelling?
Can you give an example of a case where I would want to do this? I have trouble thinking of one.
Some related but different cases that are already handled by normal search engines are:
Finding an article on LessWrong—search for “something about the article lesswrong”. A rationalist-specific search engine is overkill for this. Note that this actually works decently well to find articles that aren’t on LessWrong, like how https://www.google.com/search?q=the+toxoplasma+of+rage+lesswrong returns a Slate Star Codex article as the first result
Finding a relatively unbiased article about a recent political case—search for “the political event” then scan the first page for sites I think are relatively unbiased. Politics generally doesn’t get as much coverage in Rationalist spaces so I would expect a Rationalist-only search engine to fail to find anything at all most of the time (and personally I don’t think Rationalist sites are systematically better at political coverage than the decent mainstream outlets even when it does exist).
I don’t mean to be overly negative though, and it’s possible there is a use-case / audience for this. Just giving honest feedback on why I wouldn’t find this compelling since that seems to be what you were wanting.
Use cases: superconductor, Ukraine war, LLM development, diet or exercise, dealing with anxiety, etc. But you would only get results from a curated list of sites with higher epistemic standards.
I should have been more explicit in my initial post. I was relying on the word “rationalist” to do too much.
No worries about negativity. It is exactly what I want, so thank you.
That’s the wrong search query, you’re asking google to find pages about the Ukraine War that also include mentions of the term “rationalist”; you’re not asking google to search for rationalist discussions of the Ukraine War. Instead I’d do something like this.
Unfortunately, I’ve found that appending rationalist to queries doesn’t get the desired results. Instead you get this: link
If you could limit your search results to sites with a higher level of epistemics, would that be more compelling? There might be default set of sites, which you could customize and submit requests for additions to the corpus.
What price point would change your mind? Is the idea compelling enough that you would try a demo?
Can you give an example of a case where I would want to do this? I have trouble thinking of one.
Some related but different cases that are already handled by normal search engines are:
Finding an article on LessWrong—search for “something about the article lesswrong”. A rationalist-specific search engine is overkill for this. Note that this actually works decently well to find articles that aren’t on LessWrong, like how https://www.google.com/search?q=the+toxoplasma+of+rage+lesswrong returns a Slate Star Codex article as the first result
Finding a relatively unbiased article about a recent political case—search for “the political event” then scan the first page for sites I think are relatively unbiased. Politics generally doesn’t get as much coverage in Rationalist spaces so I would expect a Rationalist-only search engine to fail to find anything at all most of the time (and personally I don’t think Rationalist sites are systematically better at political coverage than the decent mainstream outlets even when it does exist).
I don’t mean to be overly negative though, and it’s possible there is a use-case / audience for this. Just giving honest feedback on why I wouldn’t find this compelling since that seems to be what you were wanting.
Use cases: superconductor, Ukraine war, LLM development, diet or exercise, dealing with anxiety, etc. But you would only get results from a curated list of sites with higher epistemic standards.
I should have been more explicit in my initial post. I was relying on the word “rationalist” to do too much.
No worries about negativity. It is exactly what I want, so thank you.
That’s the wrong search query, you’re asking google to find pages about the Ukraine War that also include mentions of the term “rationalist”; you’re not asking google to search for rationalist discussions of the Ukraine War. Instead I’d do something like this.
Yes, but instead of searching one domain (lesswrong), it would search ~100+ curated domains. Google currently limits the domains to ten.