Another advantage of this type of CAPTCHA is that it doesn’t discriminate against intelligent computer programs who aren’t very good at visual character recognition.
How would you feel about a less quantitative, more philosophical reasoning test?
A simpler idea might be to just have a karma filter, so no one below a threshold karma value on LW could post on meta.
A more philosophical reasoning test would not feature scary scary math. It would probably, of necessity, be more subjective, which could create a bottleneck in processing test results if we didn’t want to arbitrarily limit possible responses and miss out on some possible nuance.
Another advantage of this type of CAPTCHA is that it doesn’t discriminate against intelligent computer programs who aren’t very good at visual character recognition.
How would you feel about a less quantitative, more philosophical reasoning test?
A simpler idea might be to just have a karma filter, so no one below a threshold karma value on LW could post on meta.
A more philosophical reasoning test would not feature scary scary math. It would probably, of necessity, be more subjective, which could create a bottleneck in processing test results if we didn’t want to arbitrarily limit possible responses and miss out on some possible nuance.