paulchristiano

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   by paulchristiano 10y ago

   By "useful" I mean "improves our ability to predict what the moderator would say." The mechanism for determination is just the usual approach in machine learning, set the weights to minimize prediction error. (Plus some
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   by paulchristiano 10y ago

   The proposed mechanism makes brigading harder (e.g. a voter is only weighted highly if they are adding useful information, such that increasing their weight improves predictive accuracy), but doesn't make it impossible. In any case, it
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   by paulchristiano 10y ago

   You seem to be imagining very impressive machine learning. I agree that's the right thing in the very long run. I don't understand why you say the simple version is "unworkable" though. Currently many forums just use a h
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   by paulchristiano 10y ago

   The hope is to use features like "person X upvoted this content," rather than to try to use domain-specific features or to do natural language processing or so on. Over the long run, algorithms may play a larger role in that proce
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   by paulchristiano 10y ago

   I think that the correct behavior in the long run is to give personalized recommendations, analogous to this proposal: https://sideways-view.com/2016/12/01/optimizing-the-news-fee... The main motivation for h
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   Crowdsourcing Moderation Without Sacrificing Quality(sideways-view.com)

   36 points by paulchristiano 10y ago|15 comments