What I’ve just done is add a tag for most of the shortform collections I’d made that didn’t have a tag already. (With a few exceptions where the shortform collection was decently covered by an existing tag, or was really a fairly fuzzy or niche category.)
For some of these, including political polarisation, there aren’t many relevant Forum posts I’m aware of. But I felt like maybe that wasn’t a big issue, because more posts on the topics might still be created or found later?
And then there’s also the issue that some topics might be better off subsumed under something else. That might apply to Political Polarisation (though I’m not sure what it’d be subsumed under?) and to Differential Progress (under Existential Risk or Longtermism (philosophy) or something).
For that reason I didn’t (yet?) make Global Catastrophic Risks; that’s clearly a non-niche topic, but is maybe covered by the Existential Risk tag (even if the concepts are meaningfully distinct). And it’s why I haven’t (yet?) made Meta-Ethics (as it could fit under Moral Philosophy).
Could admins hide or delete tags that they deem overly niche? I’d feel positive about that option being on the table, so people can feel more comfortable about creating tags that might not be worthwhile (which in turn seems good, because many of those tags will indeed be worthwhile). If admins plan to be extremely reluctant to do that, then maybe it’d be good to promote a more cautious norm around tag-creation?
I wish there was a community-led way of deciding about tags. I think LW is making the calls about their tag-classification that they’ve introduced. (See image.) So maybe it makes sense for us to be more opinionated.
Thanks for that input.
(Also sort-of thinking aloud)
What I’ve just done is add a tag for most of the shortform collections I’d made that didn’t have a tag already. (With a few exceptions where the shortform collection was decently covered by an existing tag, or was really a fairly fuzzy or niche category.)
For some of these, including political polarisation, there aren’t many relevant Forum posts I’m aware of. But I felt like maybe that wasn’t a big issue, because more posts on the topics might still be created or found later?
And then there’s also the issue that some topics might be better off subsumed under something else. That might apply to Political Polarisation (though I’m not sure what it’d be subsumed under?) and to Differential Progress (under Existential Risk or Longtermism (philosophy) or something).
For that reason I didn’t (yet?) make Global Catastrophic Risks; that’s clearly a non-niche topic, but is maybe covered by the Existential Risk tag (even if the concepts are meaningfully distinct). And it’s why I haven’t (yet?) made Meta-Ethics (as it could fit under Moral Philosophy).
Could admins hide or delete tags that they deem overly niche? I’d feel positive about that option being on the table, so people can feel more comfortable about creating tags that might not be worthwhile (which in turn seems good, because many of those tags will indeed be worthwhile). If admins plan to be extremely reluctant to do that, then maybe it’d be good to promote a more cautious norm around tag-creation?
I wish there was a community-led way of deciding about tags. I think LW is making the calls about their tag-classification that they’ve introduced. (See image.) So maybe it makes sense for us to be more opinionated.
I’ve now created the post Propose and vote on potential tags, which I hope can serve as a place to collect and sift through a bunch of ideas.