Vaniver, I sympathize with the desire to automate figuring out who experts are via point systems, but consider that even in academia (with a built-in citation pagerank), people still rely on names. That’s evidence about pagerank systems not being great on their own. People game the hell out of citations.
Probably should weigh my opinion of rationality stuff quite low, I am neither a practitioner nor a historian of rationality. I have gotten gradually more pessimistic about the whole project.
From context, it’s clearly (conditional on the feature being there at all) “someone accepted by the administrators of the site as an expert”. How they make that determination would be up to them; I would hope that (again, conditional on the thing happening at all) they would err on the side of caution and accept people as experts only in cases where few reasonable people would disagree.
Vaniver, I sympathize with the desire to automate figuring out who experts are via point systems, but consider that even in academia (with a built-in citation pagerank), people still rely on names. That’s evidence about pagerank systems not being great on their own. People game the hell out of citations.
Probably should weigh my opinion of rationality stuff quite low, I am neither a practitioner nor a historian of rationality. I have gotten gradually more pessimistic about the whole project.
To be clear, in this scheme whether or not someone had access to the expert votes would be set by hand.
What is going to be the definition of “an expert” in LW 2.0?
From context, it’s clearly (conditional on the feature being there at all) “someone accepted by the administrators of the site as an expert”. How they make that determination would be up to them; I would hope that (again, conditional on the thing happening at all) they would err on the side of caution and accept people as experts only in cases where few reasonable people would disagree.
“All animals are equal… ” X-)
The issue is credibility.
Is there anyone whose makes it their business to guard against this?
Academics make it their business, and they rely on name recognition and social networks.