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IMO, LessWrong and especially The Alignment Forum need a nice citation/BibTeX tool.
Implementing such a citation tool is trivially easy. And if my model of the average research analyst is roughly correct, the friction created by the lack of such a tool accounts for a non-trivial part of why research on those websites is largely ignored in policy-facing field reports.
P.S. I don't believe that most AI posts are fit to be cited in such reports, but some of them are, and many of the citable ones are not on a more citable platform like
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Solution: allow people to alias their username to a real name if anyone uses the citation tool on them?
Doesn't solve the problem for people who actually want to be pseudonymous, but does solve the problem for e.g. habryka
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In case people didn't know, we already have a full name field you can set which we then e.g. use on the AI Alignment Forum:
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Since most authors want to be cited, one thing we might do is to make sure they know that they're more likely to be cited if their username is their actual name.