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How would you set it up? The decentralized world doesn't really have a great system for curation at this point (unless you can point to a counterexample!), and
by Taek 5y ago
How would you set it up? The decentralized world doesn't really have a great system for curation at this point (unless you can point to a counterexample!), and so I'm in favor of any sort of playing around with decentralized voting/curation until we find something that seems to be working well.
- jamescampbell 5y agoVoting (as was bore out in many examples including digg.com and elsewhere) becomes a mob rule situation and variation of tyranny of the commons without a novelty algorithm in addition to total votes. If you just go by totals, it will be easily gamified and rendered useless as a metric.
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- onhn 5y agoThe standard and most effective form of curation in science is the reference list at the end of a paper. But usually you just read everything that is relevant to your research interests from the daily arxiv posting.
- SkyMarshal 5y agoStart from the objective of first do no harm. Voting systems may eventually be gamed to distort results, so eliminate the voting system. Instead rely on ad-hoc personal networks to disseminate signal about quality papers out-of-band. Don’t assume you have to systematize everything.