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RichardKennaway comments on Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 04 June 2013 04:00:50PM *  9 points [-]

I scraped the last few hundred pages of comments on Main and Discussion, and made a simple application for pulling the highest TF-IDF-scoring words for any given user.

I'll provide these values for the first ten respondents who want them. [Edit: that's ten]

EDIT: some meta-information - the corpus comprises 23.8 MB, and spans the past 400 comment pages on Main and Discussion (around six months and two and a half months respectively). The most prolific contributor is gwern with ~780kB. Eliezer clocks in at ~280kB.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 06 June 2013 10:57:50AM 1 point [-]

I'll provide these values for the first ten respondents who want them.

Yes please. I have no idea what they will look like.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 06 June 2013 11:26:04AM 1 point [-]

suffering -> 25.000
god -> 24.508
does -> 24.383
causal -> 21.584
np -> 21.259
utility -> 20.470
agi -> 20.470
who -> 20.169
pill -> 19.353
bayesian -> 18.965
u1 -> 17.567

The word 'who' seems to come up a lot for the contributors at the more prolific end of the scale. I don't have a satisfactory answer why this should be the case. Your contribution comprises ~170kB of plain text.