In fact, the two things I would most go out of my way to avoid would be A) trying to figure out what people will like based on what other people with similar ta

In fact, the two things I would most go out of my way to avoid would be A) trying to figure out what people will like based on what other people with similar taste like and B) pulling specific facts out of articles and trying to analyze them or compare them with other articles. These two approaches seem like incredibly hard problems to solve, and they don't seem at all necessary to create something that's an order of magnitude better than what we have today. A is a solved problem. Heck, there's an API for it even: http://directededge.com/ http://directededge.com/