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LW is largely rationalist-porn for daydreamers, and that's inevitable. However, even if we can avoid that a little bit, if we can be 95% porn and 5% actually effective, then that's still a win worth having. Better than that is worth thinking about but hard to imagine in practice.
I think we will get more useful results if we have a thread in which we can pre-commit to writing such a thing up by the deadline, for the same reason that there should be a registrar of medical trials: a private commitment won't be as effective in avoiding publication bias.
Require each article to be actionable and there will be no porn.
Authors should tag actionable posts as "actionable." Then you could do a search on the tag.
The recommended action should be explicitly described.
I think this might rule out some valuable articles which are neither. Is, say, Argument screens off authority actionable? In what way? Is it porn?
If being less irrationally credentialist counts as an action, yes.
That makes "actionable" much broader than it might sound at first blush. Could you give an example of an article which is not actionable, by this definition?
What does actionable even mean in context?
An article that essentially says "please do try this at home".