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.
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.