relevance score
about
what's the difference between a "relevance score" vs an importance rating, as seen in gwern's website, for example?
Using my interactive sorting tool Resorter, Iβve ranked pages in deciles from 0β10 on how important the topic is to myself, the intended reader, or the world. For example, topics like embryo selection for traits such as intelligence or evolutionary pressures towards autonomous AI are vastly more important, and be ranked 10, than some poems or a dream or someoneβs small nootropics self-experiment, which would be ranked 0β1.
at face value, this makes sense, but what if that poem, dream, or nootropics experiment turns out to make an impact on you and become a major experience in your life? something that started with a low apparent importance can grow and become something else.
that's why i call it relevance. it's more fleeting, contextual. what's important today (getting a job, making ends meet) might be completely unimportant in a different context (when you're financially stable and are dealing with family/emotional challenges, for example). and this applies both at an individual level, but also at a societal level.
when i use "relevance", i'm pointing to the cognitive process of recursive relevance realization, which we're always engaged in, re-evaluating what is relevant now, and why.
if something tends to stay relevant for a long time, it's likely something important for us. if it seems super important at some point, but after some time it loses its grip on us, how important was it really? or was it just pointing to something deeper, that's more important to us?
i.e. relevance is more short-term. importance is more long-term. importance can be (sort of) measured by how relevant something stays/becomes for you over time.
well, that's my perspective and how i'm choosing to use the term. it's a starting point. more nuance needed/welcome over time as we continue to use this pattern. :)
relevance score visualizations
i still have to figure out why the digital garden plugin i'm using isn't allowing me to show the relevance score property on my notes. i currently have 87 notes with assigned relevance scores over 80, and i'm slowly adding it to more and more of them (mostly design/architect & lab notes were tagged so far, so the index below is missing a ton of stuff from alchemy, art, player and regen, that are less processed/more embryonary).
i intend to fix this soon, but in the meantime, while i'm also building the 025 πΊ topics & references MOC and viable pathways' 05 - core references & resources pages, this is a useful visualization for navigating this research garden by identifying what i deem as most relevant from the areas above:
*i've hid anything below 80 relevance score since - well, they're not as relevant at the moment, and therefore shouldn't clutter this visualization.
1) index
file | relevancescore | type | notestage |
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metacrisis | 98 | concepts/design |
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civilization research institute | 98 | initiatives, orgs & communities/architect;design |
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daniel schmachtenberger | 98 | people/references/architect;design |
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design philosophies | 98 | _006_core notes |
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civilization design | 97 | concepts/design |
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coordination systems | 97 | topics/architect;design |
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L1F3 support systems | 97 | _004_L1F3 |
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intimacy crisis | 96 | concepts/design |
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ring of power | 96 | concepts/design |
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integral development | 96 | concepts/alchemy |
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church of the intimate web | 96 | initiatives, orgs & communities/alchemy |
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metagame.wtf | 96 | initiatives, orgs & communities/architect;design |
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SEEDS (ecosystem) | 96 | initiatives, orgs & communities/architect;design |
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integral theory | 96 | models & frameworks/alchemy |
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knowledge design patterns | 96 | patterns/pattern collections |
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diome.xyz | 96 | projects & tools/projects/design |
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first principles and first values | 96 | references/alchemy |
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metamodernism | 96 | responses/alchemy |
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cosmoerotic humanism | 96 | responses/alchemy |
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second renaissance | 96 | responses/design |
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permacomputing | 96 | responses/regen |
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climate crisis | 96 | topics/architect;design |
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life design | 96 | topics/architect;design |
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life itself research | 95 | initiatives, orgs & communities/architect;design |
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holochain | 95 | initiatives, orgs & communities/lab |
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world game | 95 | projects & tools/projects/player |
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duskOS | 95 | projects & tools/tools/lab |
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legitimacy crisis | 94 | concepts/design |
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moloch | 94 | concepts/design |
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the great simplification | 94 | concepts/design |
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4e cognition | 94 | concepts/alchemy |
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meaning crisis | 94 | concepts/alchemy |
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ways of knowing | 94 | concepts/alchemy |
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life itself | 94 | initiatives, orgs & communities/architect;design |
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devine lu linvega | 94 | people/references/lab |
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mapping | 94 | responses/lab |
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regenerative design | 94 | responses/regen |
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energy crisis | 94 | topics/architect;design |
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knowledge commons | 94 | topics/architect;design |
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lifestyles | 94 | topics/architect;design |
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personal algorithms design | 94 | topics/architect;design |
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semantic web | 94 | topics/architect;design |
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tools for thought | 94 | topics/architect;design |
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financial crisis | 94 | topics/architect;design |
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information design | 94 | topics/lab |
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interactive visualizations | 94 | topics/lab |
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knowledge management | 94 | topics/lab |
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knowledge visualization | 94 | topics/lab |
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fourgames | 93 | models & frameworks/player |
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startover.xyz | 93 | projects & tools/projects/player |
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mΓΊsica do cΓrculo | 93 | responses/art |
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decolonization | 92 | concepts/alchemy |
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psychotechnologies | 92 | concepts/alchemy |
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meaning alignment institute | 92 | initiatives, orgs & communities/architect;design |
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bret victor | 92 | people/references/lab |
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vanessa andreotti | 92 | people/references/regen |
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human programming interface | 92 | projects & tools/tools/lab |
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self-directed learning | 92 | topics/player |
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pedagogia da cooperação | 91 | models & frameworks/host |
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alexander obenauer | 91 | people/references/lab |
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gordon brander | 91 | people/references/lab |
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maggie appleton | 91 | people/references/lab |
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subconscious (tool) | 91 | projects & tools/projects/lab |
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m4rkim | 91 | references/music/artists |
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francis miller | 90 | people/references/lab |
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karlicoss | 90 | people/references/lab |
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softspace | 90 | projects & tools/tools/lab |
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goodly labs | 88 | initiatives, orgs & communities/architect;design |
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ink & switch | 88 | initiatives, orgs & communities/lab |
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dashboards | 88 | responses/lab |
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knowledge graphs | 88 | topics/lab |
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recommender systems | 88 | topics/lab |
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codexOS | 87 | projects & tools/projects/lab |
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neighbourhoods | 86 | initiatives, orgs & communities/lab |
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wardley mapping | 86 | models & frameworks/design |
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mercuryOS | 86 | projects & tools/projects/design |
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scaling synthesis | 86 | projects & tools/projects/design |
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trails.social (ex-tweetscape) | 86 | projects & tools/projects/lab |
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weco | 86 | projects & tools/tools/design |
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hive.one | 86 | projects & tools/tools/lab |
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xanadu | 84 | projects & tools/projects/design |
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possibility management | 82 | initiatives, orgs & communities/alchemy |
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interneto | 82 | projects & tools/projects/lab |
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catalist network | 82 | projects & tools/tools/lab |
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emergence magazine | 81 | initiatives, orgs & communities/architect;design |
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hylo | 80 | projects & tools/tools/design |
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unit | 80 | projects & tools/tools/lab |
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2) map
(under development, version in-progress below)