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Re:Hacker News by mattculbreth on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @03:59PM (#42381)
This is good, I think. If it avoids the problems that Reddit ran into it's wicked cool.

However, doesn't this go away from the ideas of the social network, user-driven, "wisdom of crowds"? Do you have the problem now of the group not choosing which stories are good vs. which are agreeable to the human editors?

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Re:Hacker News by eposts on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @05:03PM (#42419)
Yes from the write up it seems to be moving from "wisdom of crowds" to "wisdom of AI". The editors will be "training" the system to recognize a good story. PG is probably hoping that one day the system will be able to tell a good story from a bad one without any help from editors.
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Re:Hacker News by euccastro on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:38AM (#42561)
That 'training' thing might have been more metaphorical than that..
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Re:Hacker News by pixcavator on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @05:38PM (#42437)
So, the problem of AI has been solved. I guess I missed the news...
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