A group of us are working on a solution. Here's a reference to a prior comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297013 https://news.ycombinator.c

A group of us are working on a solution. Here's a reference to a prior comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297013 The solution is to make peer-review better, rather than remove it entirely. Imagine that you can choose a set of people who you trust on any particular topic, and rank them with how much you trust them. Then you, and those people, can all rank any paper (or in general any URL) you read, and each of you will have a feed of incoming papers (or URLs) on any topic computed by a function that you control, in your personal reader app, which crawls your network of trusted people, and the people they trust, and so on, and aggregates all rankings and reviews. After about 7 degrees of hops across that network, you'll cover most of the world. The key new idea here is that peer review will no longer try to be a single, objective, determination of truth. Each person can have their own slightly different feed, computed by slightly different criteria, using slightly different sets of trust metrics of people over the community, all competing for other people's trust, by writing good reviews, and good papers, in order to gain reputation and influence within the distributed network. This won't be a single app. Rather, it'll be a distributed use of the WWW. Anyone can host their ratings at any web URL, on any website, and subscribe to the ratings from anyone else, at any other URL, at any other website. We can make this all realtime using the web extensions defined by https://braid.org https://braid.org, so that you can have a continuously-updating feed. In effect, we'll be building a distributed, subjective hacker news (or equivalently, a distributed subjective reddit). We don't need to fight over objectivity anymore. Instead, we'll all be entitled to our own view of the web, and be able to share our views with others. And we'll find that we are best off ourselves when we import the best views from the best people we know, and that way we will see the world through each other's eyes, and even be able to — with the flip of a dial — see the world through our enemies' eyes. Please reach out if you are interested in building anything similar! I am toomim@gmail.com, and am coordinating a group to make this happen.