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> 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 thi
by 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- cryptarch 10y agoI think it's tweaked periodically, and unpublished to make manipulation harder.