Search Ideas

Including that module significantly slows down hot reloads on all pages. I need a tight feedback loop in dev.

I could use ActionController::Live to stream ideas to the page one by one. Instant page load.

Ah, but I can reproduce when I manually make the selection by clicking and dragging to cover the entire quote.

… copying extra stuff above and below the box quote, and neither gave me the > sign.

Cannot reproduce, neither on iPad nor macOS.

I tried copying the entire quote…

Cannot reproduce. If I triple-click a word in a box quote, then copy/paste, I get the > sign.

To be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.

This doesn't work for me the way it does for you. I tried copying the entire quote, and also in a separate attempt, copying extra stuff above and below the box quote, and neither gave me the > sign.

I have tried on my windows computer and my iPad.

A single new idea somewhere down the tree could invalidate the cache and slow things down again.

Initial page loads would still be slow for users.

To be clear, if you copy the entire box quote and paste it into a textarea, it will start with the > sign. I just double checked.

You’re saying you’d still want the > if you only copy/pasted part of the box quote, right?

Cache invalidation for user-based caching sounds like a nightmare.

When copying a box quote from Veritula, the box quote formatting (>) is lost.

On initial page load, I could just load the first ten or so top-level ideas and their immediate children, just to reduce wait times and populate the page. Then load the rest asynchronously.

I could lazy load ideas: only load the parts of the page that would be visible on the current viewport. Then load more parts as the user scrolls.

I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.

I could cache ideas so deeply nested trees can be rendered at once.

Discussions are getting slower to render as they grow. It’s a rendering issue (not a db issue).

Feature idea: page at /ideas/:id/guide which shows you an idea and helps you address all pending criticisms one by one, if any. At the end, it shows a message ‘You’re all set!’ or something like that.

On iPad, the footer doesn’t extend all the way to the bottom of the page.

Changing the query on the search page moves the cursor to the start of the query input. It should move to the end or, ideally, keep its position.

On the search page, there should be a button to clear the query input.

Feature idea: a page that shows you a random idea of yours that has pending criticisms and then helps you address them all.

Then people could occasionally check the second tab for ideas they think they can rationally hold but actually can’t. And then they can work on addressing criticisms. A kind of ‘mental housekeeping’ to ensure they never accidentally hold on to problematic ideas.

Done as of f2531a2.

… all of our knowledge is tentatively true.

This is still false, see #2603. You moved it from one place to another but I don’t see how that helped.

Fallibilism is the view that there is no criterion to say with certainty what’s true and what’s false. As a result, we inevitably make mistakes and all of our knowledge is tentatively true. Nothing is obvious but depends on what one understands about reality. It also means that no knowledge is beyond revision, even if it asserts itself to be so. This means that we can't be certain about anything, because we don't have a criterion of truth. Knowledge grows by addressing problems in our knowledge. We solve problems by guessing solutions and testing them. This also means we should always be careful not to destroy or even slow down the things and ideas that correct errors and thereby create knowledge. Some of those ideas are freedom, privacy, and free markets. We are also never the passive recipients of our knowledge; we are the creators.

This view is mainly influenced by Popper, and errors are my own.