Some citations don't have links

[tayler6000]

Sometimes, Stampy will cite something but the link doesn't work. Asking Stampy Who is Robert Miles produces two citations that do not have links consistently. I've tried restarting the service and cache but this seems to always be the case. Your results may vary.

[FraserLee]

This isn't a bug, but an issue with the dataset. Some data (notably all the books) don't have anything we could link to. Usually in these cases googling the citation yields the source.

I agree that the current solution of linking to nothing feels a bit rough. The two real solutions I could envision would be:

1. Just link to a DuckDuckGo search for the exact citation in these cases, hope that will bring it up
2. Start an effort on the dataset to add links to all sources, like to corresponding publisher or author webpages for books

[ccstan99]

All the entries in the updated dataset should be valid urls, including books which will link to goodreads. We can mark as wontfix for now and double check again after the re-embedding the new ARD.

[FraserLee]

sgtm 👍

[tayler6000]

Related to StampyAI/alignment-research-dataset#2

[FraserLee]

if we should keep this open, lmk

[ccstan99]

I'd like to keep this open for now, as a placeholder, to avoid people creating new issues with essentially the same idea until we've fully resolved it.

DuckDuckGo is a good stop gap. It would be nice to also do that not only for empty urls but invalid urls, like private or removed pages. Hopefully, this'll be needed less and less but it's nice to have as a backup.