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LessWrong (30+ Karma) · August 27 · 44 sec

“Semantic search over every LessWrong post” by utilitarian theory and strategy

Site: https://rumble-34-69-187-69.nip.io/ Embedding models have gotten pretty good at capturing the meaning behind text, so I ran qwen3-embedding-8b over every lesswrong post. You can paste in a draft and find the most similar post on the site to it. Pretty useful for checking what's already been said about a topic. For example, I put in the text for this and the top result was: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vDcJHD95XCg7ywANM/i-built-a-semantic-search-engine-for-lesswrong --- First published: August 26th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uSRAzeDcfGuXte9R3/semantic-search-over-every-lesswrong-post --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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Site: https://rumble-34-69-187-69.nip.io/

Embedding models have gotten pretty good at capturing the meaning behind text, so I ran qwen3-embedding-8b over every lesswrong post.

You can paste in a draft and find the most similar post on the site to it. Pretty useful for checking what's already been said about a topic.


For example, I put in the text for this and the top result was: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vDcJHD95XCg7ywANM/i-built-a-semantic-search-engine-for-lesswrong

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First published:
August 26th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uSRAzeDcfGuXte9R3/semantic-search-over-every-lesswrong-post

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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