Yeah, and I experimented a bunch with that (directly turning forum discussions into posts) and mostly felt like it didn’t really work that well. I mostly updated that there needs to be a larger synthesis step, though I still have some guesses for more direct things that could work. Ben spent some hours distilling the discussion and comments on a bunch of posts, which we should get around to posting (I just realized we never published them).
Re tagging: In general the tagging system that we are building has a lot in common with being a wiki (collaboratively editable descriptions, providing canonical definitions and references, and providing good summaries of existing content), and I expect it to grow into being more of a wiki over time (the tagging use-case was a specific narrow use-case that seemed easy to get traction on, but the mid-term goal is to do a lot more wiki-like stuff). And I think from that perspective it’s more clear how it helps with distillation.
Yeah, and I experimented a bunch with that (directly turning forum discussions into posts) and mostly felt like it didn’t really work that well. I mostly updated that there needs to be a larger synthesis step, though I still have some guesses for more direct things that could work. Ben spent some hours distilling the discussion and comments on a bunch of posts, which we should get around to posting (I just realized we never published them).
Re tagging: In general the tagging system that we are building has a lot in common with being a wiki (collaboratively editable descriptions, providing canonical definitions and references, and providing good summaries of existing content), and I expect it to grow into being more of a wiki over time (the tagging use-case was a specific narrow use-case that seemed easy to get traction on, but the mid-term goal is to do a lot more wiki-like stuff). And I think from that perspective it’s more clear how it helps with distillation.
I went and published such a distillation (which attempts to summarise the post What Failure Looks Like and distill its comments).