On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:35:21PM -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> I'll take a whack at it, if only because the first thought that crossed
> my mind upon reading this was, "So how does one hack it?"
Always a good design method.
I wonder how resistent it is to societies for mutual admiration? If
Spike and I always rate each other very highly, that ought to be able to
increase our ERA. It would become even more effective if we could get
more people into the fanclub. This doesn't need phantom people.
I guess this is part of the problem Natasha pointed out: how much we
like each other has little to say how much good stuff we actually
contribute, and is far too one-dimensional. Clique formation can
certainly happen when we deal with actual content (for example by the
formation of the "Singularity now!" gang vs "AI is hard and slow" gang
when discussing bootstrapping SI) but is more likely with the default
social behavior of humans.
BTW, a mailing list ought to be a wonderful source of information for
automatically making a sociogram (a graph of who responds to whom,
showing the topology of discussion). It would be fun to see how this
list looks as a sociogram.
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