When I originally floated the idea on Facebook, I was considering implementing it as an LW feature directly, which would’ve been a lot of effort. Then it turned out ThoughtSaver was already building it, with cross-site integration in mind. The actual implementation on LessWrong works the same way as the Metaculus and Elicit integrations we already had, and took less than an hour on our end. (Much more than an hour of effort on ThoughtSaver’s end, obvciously, but amortized across more applications than just LessWrong integration, and that part of the effort didn’t come from the LessWrong team.)
When I originally floated the idea on Facebook, I was considering implementing it as an LW feature directly, which would’ve been a lot of effort. Then it turned out ThoughtSaver was already building it, with cross-site integration in mind. The actual implementation on LessWrong works the same way as the Metaculus and Elicit integrations we already had, and took less than an hour on our end. (Much more than an hour of effort on ThoughtSaver’s end, obvciously, but amortized across more applications than just LessWrong integration, and that part of the effort didn’t come from the LessWrong team.)