Robin Hanson's lists of Overcoming Bias Posts

post by AndrewH · 2009-08-06T20:10:39.207Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 8 comments

I have created a list of Overcoming Bias posts for Robin Hanson available here. Additionally, using the links inside each posts, I have created a set of graphs (available here) such that if post A has a link to post B, then there is an arc from B to A. Enjoy! (There are also ones for Eliezer here).

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comment by Matt_Stevenson · 2009-08-07T00:52:12.338Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

This is wonderful. I'm rather new to LW/OB and I've been reading through chains of posts.

I was about to start working on something just like this to help myself and other new readers.

Thank you.

Replies from: Vladimir_Nesov
comment by Vladimir_Nesov · 2009-08-07T00:59:04.565Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Note that the Wiki has a complete list of posts on LessWrong.

comment by PhilGoetz · 2009-08-06T20:27:21.156Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

What I like is that I can look at the list of referenced previous posts, and see which posts I should read.

Did you construct these automatically, or by hand?

Replies from: eirenicon, AndrewH
comment by eirenicon · 2009-08-06T20:46:31.741Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Automatically, because nobody hates life this much. Although when you look at it zoomed out, it's kind of beautiful.

Replies from: AndrewH
comment by AndrewH · 2009-08-06T20:53:24.065Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

If you are talking about pretty pictures, then this looks much better.

comment by AndrewH · 2009-08-06T20:50:39.159Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Automatically, If I did it by hand, it would have looked nicer. I'm working on this project again, so I hope to have some much more user friendly things coded soon. Ill make what you mentioned as well.

Replies from: PhilGoetz
comment by PhilGoetz · 2009-08-07T00:00:38.350Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I just meant that I can look at the list of Eliezer posts, and see which ones he referred to a lot, and read them.

Only, now I see I can't easily do that. I misunderstood the list. I thought it was strange that each post referenced one other post. Actually, I don't understand this at all. Can you explain how to interpret the index?

Replies from: ChrisHibbert
comment by ChrisHibbert · 2009-08-09T05:59:00.684Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I see quite a few with multiple outgoing links. Node 443, for instance has 5 outgoing links.