> 3. But the internet is too big - so we have to distribute the workload.
> 4. Oh, a distributed trust-based system at scale... it's going to be game-able by people with a financial incentive.
These are solved by being transparent and surfacing the agent (maybe even the sub-agents) for ranking, and allowing us to choose.
This way, if someone/something is gaming the system, I can just say "this recommender is garbage", and consequently it and all its sub-choices are heavily downranked for me.
This'll make filter bubbles even worse, but that ship has sailed. And I'm sort of a progressive-libertarian-centrist (in the classical sense, not in the American sense). If I get put in a bubble with people who have similar balanced tastes: yes please!
IMO it's how all moderation should go: you subscribe to some default moderators' lists initially and then mutate those subscriptions and their trust levels. Mod actions are simply adding visibility options to content and not actually removing anything.
> 4. Oh, a distributed trust-based system at scale... it's going to be game-able by people with a financial incentive.
These are solved by being transparent and surfacing the agent (maybe even the sub-agents) for ranking, and allowing us to choose.
This way, if someone/something is gaming the system, I can just say "this recommender is garbage", and consequently it and all its sub-choices are heavily downranked for me.
This'll make filter bubbles even worse, but that ship has sailed. And I'm sort of a progressive-libertarian-centrist (in the classical sense, not in the American sense). If I get put in a bubble with people who have similar balanced tastes: yes please!