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This good idea does not go far enough. There's a clear need to crowdsource judgment. The judgment could be much more expressive than "this is true". A hypergra
by Jeff_Brown 8y ago
This good idea does not go far enough.
There's a clear need to crowdsource judgment. The judgment could be much more expressive than "this is true". A hypergraph database would allow collection of arbitrary metadata -- "this helped me understand plate tectonics", "this contradicts that", etc. And it would enable more targeted search: not just "show me true things", but, say, "show me articles about voting that are highly discussed among the economic faculty at Michigan State".
I've written about this here: https://github.com/synchrony/smsn-why/blob/master/noise-vs-sunlight.md https://github.com/synchrony/smsn-why/blob/master/noise-vs-s...
I also wrote a language -- very, very close to natural language, but machine-readable -- designed to facilitate such higher-order queries: https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text/blob/master/Hash/why-use-hash.md https://github.com/JeffreyBenjaminBrown/digraphs-with-text/b...