Meta 1: It would be nice if reviews rated the material out of 5 or 10.
Right now, reviewers are starting with things like “Absolutely fantastic.” and “Extremely, extremely, recommended”, which, while are a nice indicator of high-value materials, is less efficient and more fuzzy than a rating on a standard scale. This would also motivate more people with medium value materials to come forward.
Meta 2: I think this would be much better suited to a wiki piece than a post/set of comments. Ideally it’d be in something like a collaborative evernote, but I don’t know of a free evernote clone.
Sorting into top-level categories seems poorly suited for indexing the material. For example, your post on The Blueprint, from your review, sounds like those trying to optimize social skill just as much as those trying to optimize romance. Tags, or a list at the top of a wiki, linking to anchors, would do better.
I have my own website and I can set up a wiki/social network dedicated to self improvement/instrumental rationality. Is there significant community interest?
Excellent.
Meta 1: It would be nice if reviews rated the material out of 5 or 10.
Right now, reviewers are starting with things like “Absolutely fantastic.” and “Extremely, extremely, recommended”, which, while are a nice indicator of high-value materials, is less efficient and more fuzzy than a rating on a standard scale. This would also motivate more people with medium value materials to come forward.
Meta 2: I think this would be much better suited to a wiki piece than a post/set of comments. Ideally it’d be in something like a collaborative evernote, but I don’t know of a free evernote clone.
Sorting into top-level categories seems poorly suited for indexing the material. For example, your post on The Blueprint, from your review, sounds like those trying to optimize social skill just as much as those trying to optimize romance. Tags, or a list at the top of a wiki, linking to anchors, would do better.
I like the idea of a post + set of comments to gather suggestions, and then another format to collect the finished list.
I have my own website and I can set up a wiki/social network dedicated to self improvement/instrumental rationality. Is there significant community interest?
I’m interested!