I really wish that someone would develop an algorithm that stitched together news, discussion and academic papers so that a debate could be tracked. I’d especially like it if, at the end, the system would spit out “RESOLVED: XYZ is true/sorta true/a total load. [Here’s why.]”
I figure that you could currently train a machine to recognize a spin down in academic debates and hire someone who could then review the literature to write about the resolution.
I just feel the need to say this. I’m so tired of losing track of things and then never knowing whether I was right or wrong about some issue as a result.
...train a machine to recognize a spin down in academic debates...
Off the top of my head, having a program track a Google Alerts feed on the topic (with filtering via Yahoo Pipes if Alerts gives too many false positives) and let you know when it’s gone a certain amount of time without getting any input seems like it would be a reasonable first approximation of that.
I really wish that someone would develop an algorithm that stitched together news, discussion and academic papers so that a debate could be tracked. I’d especially like it if, at the end, the system would spit out “RESOLVED: XYZ is true/sorta true/a total load. [Here’s why.]”
I figure that you could currently train a machine to recognize a spin down in academic debates and hire someone who could then review the literature to write about the resolution.
I just feel the need to say this. I’m so tired of losing track of things and then never knowing whether I was right or wrong about some issue as a result.
Off the top of my head, having a program track a Google Alerts feed on the topic (with filtering via Yahoo Pipes if Alerts gives too many false positives) and let you know when it’s gone a certain amount of time without getting any input seems like it would be a reasonable first approximation of that.