Thanks, and yeah these are approximately the same order-of-magnitude-of-difficulty that was I imagining as a “hard” question (some seem to require more specialized knowledge though, which I’m not sure of the viability of)
Some additional examples (answering Chris_Leong’s question here I guess), are:
My existing question “How Old is Smallpox” (which I wasn’t quite satisfied by the answer of). This one requires some specialist knowledge and is pretty niche so it seems fair if it doesn’t get answered. [fwiw I cared about the answer to this to know whether it was epistemically kosher to read 500 Million at Winter Solstices ceremonies.]
Possible re-run that experiment on Mechanical Turk on a broader audience (I specifically wanted to know how people who work in “traditionally shitty jobs” related to their work.)
In general, I’d like to build an engine that translates “papers written in academic-ese” into “plain english summaries”.
Thanks, and yeah these are approximately the same order-of-magnitude-of-difficulty that was I imagining as a “hard” question (some seem to require more specialized knowledge though, which I’m not sure of the viability of)
Some additional examples (answering Chris_Leong’s question here I guess), are:
My existing question “How Old is Smallpox” (which I wasn’t quite satisfied by the answer of). This one requires some specialist knowledge and is pretty niche so it seems fair if it doesn’t get answered. [fwiw I cared about the answer to this to know whether it was epistemically kosher to read 500 Million at Winter Solstices ceremonies.]
My existing question “How Much Funding and Researchers were in AI, and AI Safety, in 2018”, which I think is “somewhat hard, but accessible, and doesn’t require specialist knowledge to answer.”
Summarize the important highlights of this paper (“Job, Career, Calling”) on how people relate to their job. Also seems pretty generalist.
Possible re-run that experiment on Mechanical Turk on a broader audience (I specifically wanted to know how people who work in “traditionally shitty jobs” related to their work.)
In general, I’d like to build an engine that translates “papers written in academic-ese” into “plain english summaries”.