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This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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Have you used the LessWrong Concepts page, or generally used our tagging/wiki features? I'm curious to hear about your experience.
I'm particularly interested in people who read content from them, rather than people who contribute content to them. How do you use them? Do you wish you could get value from them better?
I think index pages are just meant to be used by only a small minority of people in any community. In my mind, the LW concepts page is like the wiki topic groups (not sure what they're called).
The similarities are:
It is fun to go through the concepts page and find tags I haven't learned about, this is good for exploration but a rare use case (for me)
Because it is an index, it is useful when you have a concept in your mind but couldn't remember the name
But the concepts page has a worse UX than wiki since you hav... (read more)
When I try to reference a concept, I often find it better to link the tag page than the original article from the Sequences, because the article in the Sequences often assumes that you have recently read the previous article, or sometimes only 1/2 or 1/3 of the article is about the idea and the rest is about something else.
In some sense, this is a difference between writing a tutorial and writing a reference book. The Sequences are a tutorial; they are supposed to be read in order. The tag pages are the reference book; they can be read individually, they are continuously updated, and they still contain the links to the most important articles so it okay to link them even if you think the articles are more valuable.
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.