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As hinted in the sibling comment, some of these "tags" are complementary, and some aren't.
For example, you might find "Bitcoin Fiction" becomes popular in a future where digital currencies have the same infamy as maritime piracy 1.
Specifically, I think "Adult" and "Fiction" are binary labels, opposed to "Children's Books" and "Non-Fiction", respectively2; while "Memoir"3 is frequently valid for all kinds of different works; and this opinion is not invalidated by the existence of "Young Adult"4 and "Hard Scifi"5.

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  1. Consider this from purely amoral measures... e.g., the question "Do parents prefer their kids watch Bitcon, Money Electric, or Hubble25?" has less to do with cinematic aesthetics and standards of documentary objectivity, and more to do with genre preferences and parental advisories.
  2. Note that all four combinations are possible, although obviously the fictional fantasies are more popular on both halves of the diagram.
  3. The closest label I can think of that is opposite to "Memoir" is "Scientific Correspondence", things like journal articles and (the Bourbaki corpus)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki#Works] that are written in first person plural and don't typically presume to tell a linear narrative (although some sections might be readable that way). Although books are frequentlny printed and bound containing nothing but this kind of writing [e.g. conference proceedings], they aren't usually found in book reviews, and the bulk of this "genre" is ideally retrospectively self-reviewing, through references and bibliographies.
  4. You could argue that "Young Adult" novels are categorisable as "children's books that are about glowing up", although some include adult themes so blatantly that they actually get censored.
  5. "Hard Scifi" is scientifically plausible fiction that takes no liberties with mechanics of how the world works; while there might be significant overlap between the audience of hard scifi and provisional patent applications, even comically unsophisticated perusal of the paragraphs [by neural networks either natural or artifical!] could tell the two apart.
This stuff is way out of my league, but I'm interested in knowing how you think some kind of organized directory should be put together. I think you and @SimpleStacker should talk about it, if you like.
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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @adlai 6 Sep
Bitcoin is younger than cryptography, Stacker News is younger than Bitcoin, and they're all rounding errors at the flailing end of human history1. I think the best approach in the short term [and not only for stacking!] is to experiment with the various text-only curations, include as few internal crosslinks as practical, and postpone the ambitious progress review towards the next halving, unless the aggregations become significantly unwieldy long before then.

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  1. the relevant definition here would be "the accumulation of works reviewable differentially against their echoes, as opposed to mere gossip"; I don't like the emphasis given to writing that goes along with the schoolbook habit of tying history to literacy... epic poems documented history for centuries while nobody cared much about the fragility of baked mud.
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Thanks for your input. I appreciate it.
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