I’m puzzled why you think a private email list involves extremely high maintenance costs. Private google group?
Not infrastructural costs. Social costs (and quite a bit of time, I expect). It takes effort to select contributors and moderate content, especially when those contributors might be smarter than you are. Distinguishing between correct contrarianism and craziness is a hard problem.
A technological solution to the mass of the problem on this list wouldn’t seem that hard either. As I’ve pointed out in other threads, complex message filtering has been around at least since usenet.
The difficulty is in working out who to filter. Dealing with overt trolling is easy. I change my opinions often enough over a long enough period of time that a source of ‘information that I agree with’ is nearly useless to me.
I think I get it. You want someone/something else to do the filtering for you?
That’s easy enough too. If others are willing, instead of being Friended, they could be FilterCloned, and you could filter based on their settings. Let EY be the DefaultFilterClone, or let him and his buddies in the Star Chamber set up a DefaultFilterClone.
Not infrastructural costs. Social costs (and quite a bit of time, I expect). It takes effort to select contributors and moderate content, especially when those contributors might be smarter than you are. Distinguishing between correct contrarianism and craziness is a hard problem.
The difficulty is in working out who to filter. Dealing with overt trolling is easy. I change my opinions often enough over a long enough period of time that a source of ‘information that I agree with’ is nearly useless to me.
I think I get it. You want someone/something else to do the filtering for you?
That’s easy enough too. If others are willing, instead of being Friended, they could be FilterCloned, and you could filter based on their settings. Let EY be the DefaultFilterClone, or let him and his buddies in the Star Chamber set up a DefaultFilterClone.
Not exactly ‘want’. The nature of insights is that they are unexpected. But essentially yes.