{"id":424,"date":"2009-09-04T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T19:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2009-09-04T15:47:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T19:47:28","slug":"worldview-manager-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Worldview Manager is live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=362\">blog entry<\/a> seeking summer students to create a <em>Worldview Manager<\/em>: a web application that would prompt users to state their beliefs about various statements, and then notify them if two or more answers were in &#8220;tension&#8221; with one another, giving them the chance to modify their beliefs and thereby resolve the tension.\u00a0 The idea was then covered in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2008\/12\/10\/hot-topics-contradictions-tech-sciences_cz_lg_1211gomes.html\">short piece by Lee Gomes<\/a> at Forbes.com.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up selecting two students: Louis Wasserman of the University of Chicago, and Leonid Grinberg of Belmont High School.\u00a0 They excelled at all aspects of this project, from low-level hacking to high-level design decisions.\u00a0 If there are enough young &#8216;uns like them, I feel better about the future of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of their work, I&#8217;m pleased to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.csail.mit.edu\/worldview\/\">you can now try Worldview Manager here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, we have only a limited selection of &#8220;topic files&#8221;, all of them rather nerdy: Complexity Theory, Strong AI, the Axiom of Choice, Quantum Computing, Libertarianism, and Quantum Mechanics.\u00a0 However, if there&#8217;s enough interest, we&#8217;ll probably add more topic files soon.\u00a0 In the meantime, if you have any interest in contributing topic files yourself, please let me know!\u00a0 It&#8217;s actually not hard.<\/p>\n<p>And if you have praise, gripes, constructive feedback, nonconstructive feedback &#8230; hey, the comments section is right underneath this sentence.<\/p>\n<p><input onclick=\"jsCall();\" id=\"jsProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I wrote a blog entry seeking summer students to create a Worldview Manager: a web application that would prompt users to state their beliefs about various statements, and then notify them if two or more answers were in &#8220;tension&#8221; with one another, giving them the chance to modify their beliefs and thereby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}