Tag Index [Beta]

post by Ruby · 2020-04-17T01:25:58.501Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

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  AI
      Everything to do with the effects of advanced artificial intelligence on the world, especially ensuring the outcomes are good.
      Meta
  Rationality
      Thinking in ways that lead to true beliefs and optimal decisions. “Rationality” is used here specifically for content that relates to cognitive algorithms. 
      Formal / Theoretical
      Models of the Mind / Agents
      Techniques & Skills
      Failure Modes
      Communication / Argument
      Other
  World Modeling
      How the world is. Science. Math. Statistics. History. Biology. Sociology. Engineering. That kind of stuff.
  World Optimization
      Changing the world so that it’s better. Figuring what “better” is.
      Causes / Interventions / Domains
  Practical
      All content which offers practical, actionable advice on how to achieve goals and generally succeed.
    Optimizing with Others
  Community
      For posts that are about individuals and groups who participate on LessWrong or are part of our broader community. This includes projects and practices.
  Other
      Good tags that don’t fit under the core tags.
      Content Type
  Site Meta
      All content that concerns the LessWrong website or online community.
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These tags are filtered for quality. See the "All Tags" page [? · GW] for the unfiltered list.

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AI [? · GW]

Everything to do with the effects of advanced artificial intelligence on the world, especially ensuring the outcomes are good.

Meta

See also Forecasting & Predictions which contains AI-related forecasts.

Rationality [? · GW]

Thinking in ways that lead to true beliefs and optimal decisions. “Rationality” is used here specifically for content that relates to cognitive algorithms. 

Object-level stuff not directly about minds, e.g. practical advice, is clustered under World Modeling and Practical.

Formal / Theoretical

Models of the Mind / Agents

Techniques & Skills

Failure Modes

Communication / Argument

Other

World Modeling [? · GW]

How the world is. Science. Math. Statistics. History. Biology. Sociology. Engineering. That kind of stuff.

Models that pertains to minds/thinking, how to improve the world or oneself, and AI are mostly excluded from this cluster. They can be found under the Rationality, World Optimization, and AI Alignment tags.

Meta (see also #Rationality)

See #Rationality and #World-Optimization for content on scholarship, learning [? · GW], and research.

World Optimization [? · GW]

Changing the world so that it’s better. Figuring what “better” is.

Since these models pertain directly to questions how to optimize the world, they are grouped primarily under World Optimization rather than World Modeling. Some posts will be dual-tagged.

Causes / Interventions / Domains

Practical [? · GW]

All content which offers practical, actionable advice on how to achieve goals and generally succeed.

See Rationality for content on memory and learning (pertains to cognitive algorithms).

Optimizing with Others

Community [? · GW]

For posts that are about individuals and groups who participate on LessWrong or are part of our broader community. This includes projects and practices.

Other

Good tags that don’t fit under the core tags.

Content Type

Site Meta [? · GW]

All content that concerns the LessWrong website or online community.

More subtags for Site-Meta coming soon.

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comment by wizzwizz4 · 2020-05-24T15:53:00.944Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Why is the "all tags" link to lessestwrong.com?

Replies from: Ruby
↑ comment by Ruby · 2020-05-26T00:18:29.460Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Oops, that's a mistake. Fixed now. Thanks.