In the past few months, the LessWrong team has been making use of the latest AI tools (given that they unfortunately exist[1]) for art, music, and deciding what we should all be reading.

Our experiments with the latter, i.e. the algorithm that chooses which posts to show on the frontpage, has produced results sufficiently good that at least for now, we're making Enriched the default for logged-in users[2]. If you're logged in and you've never switched tabs before, you'll now be on the Enriched tab. (If you don't have an account, making one takes 10 seconds.)

The frontpage for LOGGED-IN users

To recap, here are the currently available tabs (subject to change):

Latest: 100% post from the Latest algorithm (using karma and post age to sort[3])
Enriched (new default): 50% posts from the Latest algorithm, 50% posts from the recommendations engine
Recommended: 100% posts from the recommendations engine, choosing [...]

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Outline:

(01:43) Why make Enriched the default?

(03:31) Shifting the age of posts

(04:29) Feedback, please

The original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
June 21st, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/TDMKch5qzuaac5LFF/enriched-tab-is-now-the-default-lw-frontpage-experience-for

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

“Enriched tab is now the default LW Frontpage experience for logged-in users” by Ruby, RobertM

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“Enriched tab is now the default LW Frontpage experience for logged-in users” by Ruby, RobertM