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I don't see why do you think such system will force you to experience content you don't want. It's just when your tastes diverge from what's forced on us as ac
by guard-of-terra 10y ago
I don't see why do you think such system will force you to experience content you don't want.
It's just when your tastes diverge from what's forced on us as acceptable, you shouldn't let in the dark.
- pjc50 10y agoThere's no way a priori to determine whether I want content without looking at it. At best I can delegate this up to a moderator to look at it for me. There are entire subcultures of people who make a game of trying to get people to see images they don't want to see. This has been happening since slashdot and goatse.
- guard-of-terra 10y ago> There's no way a priori to determine whether I want content without looking at it This is plain false. HN does it, for example. > At best I can delegate this up to a moderator to look at it for me It's an algorithm, not a moderator. Moderators are currently employed for two things: a) censorship, b) influencing opinions. Everything else algorithms do just fine.
- pjc50 10y agoHN is also a moderated system, there's this guy called dang you may have heard of.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoBut he's not going around curating your reading lists, does he? That's the point. In your own P2P Facebook, you'll be your own dang.
- fdgdasfadsf 10y agoHN's algorithm for deciding what gets on the first page is not totally trivial. Is it published anywhere?
- cryptarch 10y agoI think it's tweaked periodically, and unpublished to make manipulation harder.