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Nice project thanks. It's also consistent with my analysis that Arbital's fancy wiki features never added much value (say, more than +30%) beyond the value that that content would have if published in a pre-existing format and venue.

Arbital scrape

by emmab

1 min read6th Jun 201923 comments

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Logic & Mathematics Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)Site MetaAI

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Update: Arbital Scrape V2

I've scraped http://arbital.com as the site is unusably slow and hard to search for me.

The scrape is locally browsable and plain HTML save for MathJax.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b7dKhOzfMpFwngAeI8efeOzv147Lv_mx

https://emma-borhanian.github.io/arbital-scrape/

If there's interest let me know as I may tidy up and open source my code. edit: working on this

Mirror: www.obormot.net/arbital

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[-]Said Achmiz4y22

This is now hosted at https://www.obormot.net/arbital/ .

[-]Raemon4y4

FWIW, I think it'd be helpful if this link were edited into the OP to make viewing more obvious.

[-]Said Achmiz4y3

You may want to post a comment saying this as a top-level reply, so that emmab will be notified of it, yes?

[-]Raemon4y2

Pretty sure he gets notified of all comments on his posts by default

[-]Said Achmiz4y3

Wait… really? I thought the notifications were just for top-level comments?? Is that false…?

[-]Raemon4y2

I’m not actually sure and can’t check right now, but I thought so.

[-]habryka4y4

Yeah, notifications are for all comments, not just top-level.

[-]emmab4y1

[-]Raemon4y10

Thanks!

[-]Raemon4y10

Follow up: wow, there's a lot of good stuff here I hadn't known about.

[-]clone of saturn4y9

I've been working on something similar, it should be ready soon-ish.

[-]emmab4y1

I'll wait to open source mine to see if yours is better then :)

[-]emmab4y3

Nvm. Arbital Scrape V2

[-]riceissa4y9

The scrape seems to be missing the Solomonoff induction dialogue, which was available at https://arbital.com/p/solomonoff_induction/?l=1hh (at the moment I just get an error).

ETA (2019-06-28): The new version of the scrape has this page, and can be viewed on the GreaterWrong version.

[-]roland4y6

Seconded, that part is missing. Thanks for pointing out that very interesting dialogue.

[-]Smaug1234y7

Thanks very much for this! I've written a lot of stuff on there (I'm the Patrick Stevens whose name is splatted all over the screenshot). I asked them a year ago (ish) whether I could have a data dump, and they said it was Too Difficult; and I didn't bother scraping it myself. I'm glad you actually went and did something about it!