MBlume comments on Proposal: Use the Wiki for Concepts - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 April 2009 05:21AM

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Comment author: trimeta 22 April 2009 08:24:11AM 2 points [-]

As a person who's completely obsessed with the TV Tropes wiki (and has only just recently started to peruse this site), I applaud any efforts to apply that model to furthering the cause of rationality. One problem I foresee, however, is hinted at with your comment that "the trope explanation itself will be a short bite of joy" and that this promotes opening up new tabs to acquire said bite of joy. If you're trying to compare the postings themselves to the trope descriptions and the comment threads to the references, the analogy breaks down due to the length of the posts. It's simply not practical to whittle down the post lengths such that one could reasonably say "I'll open a couple more of these, I'm sure it won't add too much time to my browsing session." This sort of multiplicative effect might come into play on the LW wiki, but I fear it cannot drive traffic back here to the degree you would hope.

Comment author: MBlume 22 April 2009 08:25:01AM 2 points [-]

You should've seen my browser windows when I first discovered OB a year and a half ago.

Comment author: MartinB 22 April 2009 09:55:59AM 2 points [-]

Two or three weeks of continuous reading, reading, reading in awe.

Martin

Comment author: FrF 22 April 2009 03:43:55PM *  0 points [-]

I have always at least a couple of Eliezer's OB posts on my pda. Today I went through some hitherto underexplored sections of OB -- meaning I only read them once -- and I have now dozens of posts on my trusty old Acer N30.