gwern comments on [LINK] Get paid to train your rationality - Less Wrong

27 Post author: XFrequentist 03 August 2011 03:01PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (55)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Morendil 04 September 2011 07:28:48PM *  1 point [-]

If you really found tags all that valuable, you could start doing them inside comments.

Preliminary report: this isn't going to work, not without drastic contortions in the choice of tags (which IMO kills the effectiveness of the tactic). For instance, from my first set of 30 I tagged a number with the tag "personal", predictions which only concern one user (or two acquainted with each other) and that I don't want to see because I can't effectively assess them. The Google query including "personal" returns close to 30 spurious results: for instance those containing "personal computer" or "personal transportation". (A temporary workaround is to include the term "tags" in the query, but this will cease to work once a greater fraction of predictions have been tagged.)

I doubt you will adopt my suggestion

You are correct about the likely outcome, but I think I've just proven your model of the underlying reasons wrong: I won't do it because it won't work, not because I lack the conscientiousness to do so, or because I'm too selfish to take on an effort that will benefit all users.

Comment author: gwern 04 September 2011 08:05:32PM 0 points [-]

The Google query including "personal" returns close to 30 spurious results: for instance those containing "personal computer" or "personal transportation".

JoshuaZ has (example) been adding brackets to the tags, such as [economics]. You don't mention forcing Google to include the brackets, so it's not surprising it includes those extra results.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 04 September 2011 11:21:48PM 2 points [-]

I don't think google respects punctuation. It's a common complaint.

Comment author: gwern 04 September 2011 11:39:36PM 1 point [-]

Hm, you're right. I did some searches on this, and apparently brackets are one of the special characters specifically excluded by Google (along with spam-licious '@' and others). How unfortunate.