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Perhaps you could run each message through Google translate or something similar (e.g. English -> French -> English) to obfuscate the writing style. Otherwise,
by scrrr 15y ago
Perhaps you could run each message through Google translate or something similar (e.g. English -> French -> English) to obfuscate the writing style. Otherwise, as others have already pointed out, it is very indicative of who the author is.
- terio 15y agoI also mentioned that idea below :)
- pavel_lishin 15y agoI foresee this having hilarious unintended consequences.
- terio 15y agoThe user would have to correct the resulting text anyways.
- andrewcooke 15y agoi wonder if you could repeat with different languages and take some kind of semantic median? interesting problem. [just to clarify, given the replies - i am talking about repeating in parallel, not in series. the idea being that errors might cancel out, rather than accumulate]
- ak217 15y agoI think all conversations should be run back and forth through Google Translate until they reach equilibrium (a la Translation Party). For added awesomeness, do a multi-way equilibrium instead of just two languages.
- BoppreH 15y agoYour post in Translation Party: I (translation of a la carte party) have achieved a balance between the universal and Google, and I need to translate the conversation. Not only, Blip.fm, from how to move from the language of two additional multi balance. I think two languages is bad enough.
- malnourish 15y agoTangential, but Translation Party doesn't work for me in the newest (stable) Firefox and Chrome.
- 6ren 15y agoYou could use mechanical turk to rephrase each message. ugh that is so like Vinge's focus.
- widget 15y agoI don't think that's necessarily any better. Ever played Telephone?
- hammock 15y agoYou'd need to run it through a non-deterministic model for that to work. Maybe select a couple languages at random to run it through, rather than the same one every time.
- pohl 15y agoI tried it with your comment, and it came back the same. However, English-->French-->Polish-->English came back with something altered: Perhaps start every message by the Google Translate or something similar (eg English -> French -> English) to hide the writing style. Otherwise, as already mentioned, this is very revealing of who the author.