Wiki features and how valuable they would be

Docs-like comments on wikis

Double bracket search and tagging

When you use [[, it opens up a search window to all Lesswrong pages. You type in what you want to reference. If there isn't one. it creates it eg [[Solipsism]]

Disputed changes sit beside text, like comments

A process for requesting a number -> getting an accurate forecast

There is a description in the text
A user flags it for quantification
Other users collaboratively write a forecasting question
Users give estimates, weighted by LW karma score (I hate this but it would be better than nothing, hard to abuse etc)
Ideally, eventually this gets replaced by a manifold market or similar

Toggle open close sections

Gwern-style floating windows which appear when you hover over text in Lesswrong

Embeddable manifold markets

Embeddable squiggle estimation

Taking variables from manifold markets and squiggle and displaying them within the text

Note by Nathan Young:

This is a deliberate bastardisation and subversion of how the wiki is used
In order that people don't think I'm a defector, I'm making clear what I'm doing as I'm doing it. Tell me what you think
Anyone should still edit this document as if it were theirs
The wiki would be better if it had a range of features I discuss below
If you disagree, edit it! Sometimes edit wars are good

Wiki features and how valuable they would be

Docs-like comments on wikis
- It would make it much cleaner to write things I intend to work on in future.
- The tech exists
Double bracket search and tagging
- When you use [[, it opens up a search window to all Lesswrong pages. You type in what you want to reference. If there isn't one. it creates it eg [[Solipsism]]
Disputed changes sit beside text, like comments
A process for requesting a number -> getting an accurate forecast
- There is a description in the text
- A user flags it for quantification
- Other users collaboratively write a forecasting question
- Users give estimates, weighted by LW karma score (I hate this but it would be better than nothing, hard to abuse etc)
- Ideally, eventually this gets replaced by a manifold market or similar
Toggle open close sections
Gwern-style floating windows which appear when you hover over text in Lesswrong
Embeddable manifold markets
Embeddable squiggle estimation
Taking variables from manifold markets and squiggle and displaying them within the text

Some pages I have edited to be the style of what I think should be all pages

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/effective-altruism
- It now has a section on funding use, impact and criticims
- With a little more work I think it could be the best single page introduction to EA
https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/forecasting-and-prediction
- A better overview of the topic