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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by bluefirebrand on Monday May 17, 2021 @10:48AM (#27184072)
The other side of that is that Hacker News and Reddit and other upvote/downvote cultured sites often have shown that the first upvotes and downvotes on a topic often are the ones that win out because people just bandwagon them
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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by rPlayer6554 on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:20AM (#27184448)
The year is 2040: The USA now has exactly 69 states and the official currency is doge coin. Elon Musk is the Supreme Overlord for life and was the first leader of the United States to have a Department of Memes.
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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by ww520 on Monday May 17, 2021 @12:34PM (#27185334)
Shouldn’t it be AI Arnold 2.0 or Skynet something?
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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by jvalencia on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:18PM (#27188574)
The AI through a convoluted deep net, decided that maximizing the AI efficiency was best setup based on this reality.
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Re:The app that lets you pay to control another person's life by throwanident on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:12PM (#27188518)
I think I saw someone suggest using a multi-armed bandit algorithm with upvotes as the objective. I'd like to see that!

An algorithm like that would balance the exploitation of showing current highly upvoted posts first with the exploration of showing posts with few votes first, so that every post gets its chance while still penalizing spam posts once they're conclusively known to be bad.

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