When it comes to the particular post, it’s written by Paul Christiano. I expect that the target audience for the post is people who want to read everything that Paul Christiano writes on AI.
I don’t think it makes sense to conceptualize not reading the post if you are not in the target audience as punishing it.
If you do notice a post that seems to could have a better title, how about writing the author a message suggesting a better title for it?
Yes, I noticed that Paul Christiano was the author, and immediately had a much clearer idea about what the title meant – but only after clicking-thru. The RSS feed, or maybe my feed reader (Feedly). doesn’t show the author of posts.
My problem is that I regularly can’t tell if I’m in the target audience just based on the titles.
I also don’t think Christiano’s post is the best example because it was a cross-post. I’m assuming that cross-posting to LessWrong is not particularly important to authors that do so. That’s a big reason why I suggested an automatic solution like including tag(s) in the feed entry title. Including the author in the title would also be very helpful I’d expect.
I’ll check if the author is included in the RSS feed data as there are other feeds (e.g. blogs) for which that would be helpful/useful to see in my feed reader.
When it comes to the particular post, it’s written by Paul Christiano. I expect that the target audience for the post is people who want to read everything that Paul Christiano writes on AI.
I don’t think it makes sense to conceptualize not reading the post if you are not in the target audience as punishing it.
If you do notice a post that seems to could have a better title, how about writing the author a message suggesting a better title for it?
Yes, I noticed that Paul Christiano was the author, and immediately had a much clearer idea about what the title meant – but only after clicking-thru. The RSS feed, or maybe my feed reader (Feedly). doesn’t show the author of posts.
My problem is that I regularly can’t tell if I’m in the target audience just based on the titles.
I also don’t think Christiano’s post is the best example because it was a cross-post. I’m assuming that cross-posting to LessWrong is not particularly important to authors that do so. That’s a big reason why I suggested an automatic solution like including tag(s) in the feed entry title. Including the author in the title would also be very helpful I’d expect.
I’ll check if the author is included in the RSS feed data as there are other feeds (e.g. blogs) for which that would be helpful/useful to see in my feed reader.
It does seem like the (“All Posts”) RSS feed includes the author as a child element of the feed
itemelements, ex.:That doesn’t seem to be a part of standard RSS tho so I imagine it’d be difficult to convince feed reader authors/maintainers to support it.