I don’t think the problem has anything to do with Democracy, it’s just a question of someone who understands the system taking the time to implement it.
...it’s just a question of someone who understands the system taking the time to implement it.
We got some unfriendly AI here trying to tile LW with spam and nobody takes the time to implement a solution? If the SIAI fails this field test we’re doomed.
We got some unfriendly AI here trying to tile LW with spam and nobody takes the time to implement a solution? If the SIAI fails this field test we’re doomed.
I’m not sure the goal is complete tiling. Note that if a website is completely tiled with spam then people will stop linking to it. The goal therefore should be to spam but not spam so much as to fill the website with just spam. This would in fact explain why we don’t get a lot more of them placed: there’s a deliberate limit on the rate of spamming.
I think it’s mostly a question of knowing which integer to change where (it might be more than just an integer, like adding an extra condition to an “if” or something, but I don’t expect the change itself to be particularly big), comitting the change to github, and deploying the version with the change (and without including any other risky untested work-in-progress changes to the code that may also be on github). It’s not just a config parameter that an be changed at runtime.
Trivial inconveniences and all that.
I think last time someone tried to fix this problem, they did it not by setting a karma threshold, but by adding a (better?) kapcha to registration, or adding a captcha for posting when you have zero karma, something like that. It probably seemed like a fine idea at the time, but bots crowdsource captchas by reusing them on humans trying to get access to porn / downloads.
I don’t think the problem has anything to do with Democracy, it’s just a question of someone who understands the system taking the time to implement it.
We got some unfriendly AI here trying to tile LW with spam and nobody takes the time to implement a solution? If the SIAI fails this field test we’re doomed.
I’m not sure the goal is complete tiling. Note that if a website is completely tiled with spam then people will stop linking to it. The goal therefore should be to spam but not spam so much as to fill the website with just spam. This would in fact explain why we don’t get a lot more of them placed: there’s a deliberate limit on the rate of spamming.
The adaptation being executed would certainly lead to complete tiling.
Enough spammers observably don’t behave like this, but instead fill their prey with just spam.
isnt this a matter of changing an integer somewhere? i thought there was minimum threshold to post code already in place for the main section.
I think it’s mostly a question of knowing which integer to change where (it might be more than just an integer, like adding an extra condition to an “if” or something, but I don’t expect the change itself to be particularly big), comitting the change to github, and deploying the version with the change (and without including any other risky untested work-in-progress changes to the code that may also be on github). It’s not just a config parameter that an be changed at runtime.
Trivial inconveniences and all that.
I think last time someone tried to fix this problem, they did it not by setting a karma threshold, but by adding a (better?) kapcha to registration, or adding a captcha for posting when you have zero karma, something like that. It probably seemed like a fine idea at the time, but bots crowdsource captchas by reusing them on humans trying to get access to porn / downloads.