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Want: • Scrape popular self-referential blogs (, LessWrong sequences, , maybe ?) • For each, construct dependency graph: what old posts do new posts reference? Simplify by hand Find guiding abstractions. May suggest entry points for new readers
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Completely unsurprisingly if you've read a bunch of , but if you just count the number of self-referential links on then "A Big Little Idea Called Legibility" comes out on top by far! Haven't done dependency graph yet which may be more interesting. Raw counts:
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Are there arrowheads for directed edges? I suspect main link between me and Sarah would be me citing weaponized sacredness. There *should* be low coupling between contributors per “intellectual hedge fund” model since I turn away pitches that are too close to existing trails.
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