I discovered the site nearly 2 years ago, and have sort of meandered through old and new posts enjoying them. Something I have observed is that, having now gone through most of the best of the “back-catalogue” (old stuff) I am now visiting and reading less, because stuff I like is added at a given rate and I was consuming much faster than that rate. This is relevant, because without being careful it creates the impression of reduced good content. So perhaps any feedback along the lines of “there used to be more good stuff” should be checked for this illusion.
I have filtered AI tagged stuff off completely. I come to LessWrong to read about some weird new idea someone has (eg. a crazy thought experiment, a seemingly-mad ethical claim or a weird fiction). Five posts on AI alignment was enough for me. I don’t need to see more. I am really pleased that the filter system allows this to work so seamlessly—I just don’t see AI stuff any more and sometimes kind of forget LessWrong is used as an “AI place” by some people.
I like the react symbols, and agree/disagree voting. I have not tried reading or participating in a dialogue, and am unlikely to do so. The dialogue format doesn’t seem like the right frame for the kind of thing I like.
I am really pleased that the filter system allows this to work so seamlessly—I just don’t see AI stuff any more and sometimes kind of forget LessWrong is used as an “AI place” by some people.
It works quite well; the one limitation is that the tag filter can only filter out posts that have been tagged correctly, which brand-new posts aren’t necessarily. That said, I just checked the New Post editor, and there’s now a section to apply tags from within the editor. So this UX change likely reduced the proportion of untagged posts.
We also have a system which automatically applies “core tags” (AI, Rationality, World Modeling, World Optimization, Community, and Practical) to new posts. It’s accurate enough, particulary with the AI tag, that it enables the use-case of “filter out all AI posts from the homepage”, which a non-zero number of users want, even if we still need to sometimes fix the tags applied to posts.
I like LessWrong a lot.
I discovered the site nearly 2 years ago, and have sort of meandered through old and new posts enjoying them. Something I have observed is that, having now gone through most of the best of the “back-catalogue” (old stuff) I am now visiting and reading less, because stuff I like is added at a given rate and I was consuming much faster than that rate. This is relevant, because without being careful it creates the impression of reduced good content. So perhaps any feedback along the lines of “there used to be more good stuff” should be checked for this illusion.
I have filtered AI tagged stuff off completely. I come to LessWrong to read about some weird new idea someone has (eg. a crazy thought experiment, a seemingly-mad ethical claim or a weird fiction). Five posts on AI alignment was enough for me. I don’t need to see more. I am really pleased that the filter system allows this to work so seamlessly—I just don’t see AI stuff any more and sometimes kind of forget LessWrong is used as an “AI place” by some people.
I like the react symbols, and agree/disagree voting. I have not tried reading or participating in a dialogue, and am unlikely to do so. The dialogue format doesn’t seem like the right frame for the kind of thing I like.
It works quite well; the one limitation is that the tag filter can only filter out posts that have been tagged correctly, which brand-new posts aren’t necessarily. That said, I just checked the New Post editor, and there’s now a section to apply tags from within the editor. So this UX change likely reduced the proportion of untagged posts.
We also have a system which automatically applies “core tags” (AI, Rationality, World Modeling, World Optimization, Community, and Practical) to new posts. It’s accurate enough, particulary with the AI tag, that it enables the use-case of “filter out all AI posts from the homepage”, which a non-zero number of users want, even if we still need to sometimes fix the tags applied to posts.
Ah, that’s great.