narrow AIs that can supposedly identify an author from their writing
It’s not a “narrow AI”, it’s a straightforward statistical model. Or, if you prefer, an outcome of machine learning applied to texts of different authors.
identify sockpuppets
A voting sockpuppet doesn’t post except to get the initial karma. It just up- and down-votes—there is no text to analyse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_AI It is by that definition. Of course, words are only useful if people understand them. I know LW has some non-standard terminology. Point me to the definitions agreed upon by this community and I’ll update accordingly.
A voting sockpuppet doesn’t post except to get the initial karma.
Sounds like the initial karma threshold is too low. I have various other ideas about how to fix the karma system, but perhaps I should hold off on proposing (more) solutions before we’ve discussed the problem thoroughly. If that’s already been started I should probably continue from there, otherwise, do you think this issue (karma problems) merits a top-level discussion post?
I still don’t think so. “AI” is a very fuzzy term (the meaning of which changes with time, too) but in this case what you have is a fairly plain-vanilla classifier which I see no reason to anoint with the “intelligence” title.
do you think this issue (karma problems) merits a top-level discussion post?
Karma has been extensively (and fruitlessly) talked about here. If you want to write a top-level post about your proposals, it might be a good idea to acquaint yourself with the previous discussions here (as well as the experience of other forums, from Slashdot to Reddit).
It’s not a “narrow AI”, it’s a straightforward statistical model. Or, if you prefer, an outcome of machine learning applied to texts of different authors.
A voting sockpuppet doesn’t post except to get the initial karma. It just up- and down-votes—there is no text to analyse.
There’s a pattern of voting to analyse, though...
Sure, but that’s a much easier problem.
I’m not convinced it actually is. (To get useful information out of, that is.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_AI It is by that definition. Of course, words are only useful if people understand them. I know LW has some non-standard terminology. Point me to the definitions agreed upon by this community and I’ll update accordingly.
Sounds like the initial karma threshold is too low. I have various other ideas about how to fix the karma system, but perhaps I should hold off on proposing (more) solutions before we’ve discussed the problem thoroughly. If that’s already been started I should probably continue from there, otherwise, do you think this issue (karma problems) merits a top-level discussion post?
I still don’t think so. “AI” is a very fuzzy term (the meaning of which changes with time, too) but in this case what you have is a fairly plain-vanilla classifier which I see no reason to anoint with the “intelligence” title.
Karma has been extensively (and fruitlessly) talked about here. If you want to write a top-level post about your proposals, it might be a good idea to acquaint yourself with the previous discussions here (as well as the experience of other forums, from Slashdot to Reddit).