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Re:New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time... by yters on Saturday February 16, 2008 @11:00AM (#117005)
That's a neat idea. If it is true that humans are better at solving certain problems than computers, maybe games could represent problems that the computer can't solve easily. Just think if the WoW fanbase were really number crunching!
Re:New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time... by curi on Saturday February 16, 2008 @02:07PM (#117072)
you gotta watch this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143...

about using games to get people to do useful computation

Re:New YC Company 8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time... by yters on Sunday February 17, 2008 @02:40PM (#117710)
So that's where the image labeling game came from! Nice find.