The meaning of “good” would be just the sort of thing I’d like to get from this. Not necessary the kind of good, but something that let me do something with how I feel about a given text’s utility for a particular purpose. (“Text” in the PM jargon sense of “any subject matter whatsoever”.)
I have vague ideas of turning star ratings (one to five stars) into numbers (say, 0.1 to 0.9). So three stars would mean 0.5, i.e. “I have literally no idea if this is good or not.” Except that my prior for the value of any random record is 0.1-0.2, i.e. most music is rubbish. So this leads me to be wary of premature arithmetism—just because you have a system that lets you put a number on something in no way implies that you have any idea what the hell you’re talking about. On the other hand, trying some numerical systems and seeing if any of them feel useful will obviously be necessary. While reminding myself that any given system may be completely full of shit. Welcome to the rabbit hole!
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The meaning of “good” would be just the sort of thing I’d like to get from this. Not necessary the kind of good, but something that let me do something with how I feel about a given text’s utility for a particular purpose. (“Text” in the PM jargon sense of “any subject matter whatsoever”.)
I have vague ideas of turning star ratings (one to five stars) into numbers (say, 0.1 to 0.9). So three stars would mean 0.5, i.e. “I have literally no idea if this is good or not.” Except that my prior for the value of any random record is 0.1-0.2, i.e. most music is rubbish. So this leads me to be wary of premature arithmetism—just because you have a system that lets you put a number on something in no way implies that you have any idea what the hell you’re talking about. On the other hand, trying some numerical systems and seeing if any of them feel useful will obviously be necessary. While reminding myself that any given system may be completely full of shit. Welcome to the rabbit hole!
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