I can understand people wanting that. If the goal is to spread this information, however, I’d suggest that those wanting to be part of an Inner Circle should go Darknet, invitation only, and keep these discussions there, if you must have them at all.
Hmm. I generally agree with the original post, but I don’t want to be part of an inner circle. I want access to a source of high insight-density information. Whether or not I myself am qualified to post there is an orthogonal issue.
Of course, such a thing would have an extremely high maintenance cost. I have little justification for asking to be given access to it at no personal cost.
Spreading information is important too, but only to the extent that what’s being spread is contributing to the collective knowledge.
I want access to a source of high insight-density information. Whether or not I myself am qualified to post there is an orthogonal issue.
Which is yet another purpose that involves tradeoffs with the ones I previously mentioned.
I’m puzzled why you think a private email list involves extremely high maintenance costs. Private google group?
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. Much of the technical infrastructure must already be in place, since we have personally customizable filtering based on karma and Friends. Or add another Karma filter for total Karma for the poster, so that you don’t even have to enter Friends by hand. Combine Poster Karma with Post Karma with an inclusive OR, and you’ve probably gone 80% of the way there to being able to filter unwanted noise.
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.
Hmm. I generally agree with the original post, but I don’t want to be part of an inner circle. I want access to a source of high insight-density information. Whether or not I myself am qualified to post there is an orthogonal issue.
Of course, such a thing would have an extremely high maintenance cost. I have little justification for asking to be given access to it at no personal cost.
Spreading information is important too, but only to the extent that what’s being spread is contributing to the collective knowledge.
Which is yet another purpose that involves tradeoffs with the ones I previously mentioned.
I’m puzzled why you think a private email list involves extremely high maintenance costs. Private google group?
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. Much of the technical infrastructure must already be in place, since we have personally customizable filtering based on karma and Friends. Or add another Karma filter for total Karma for the poster, so that you don’t even have to enter Friends by hand. Combine Poster Karma with Post Karma with an inclusive OR, and you’ve probably gone 80% of the way there to being able to filter unwanted noise.
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.