I think there’s actually a pretty good solution to this that I’ve been looking forward to for years, and that I think the technology is now ready to support. Unfortunately, I’m too busy worrying about, I mean, working on AGI alignment to spend time on this currently. The idea is simple: an open source decentralized recommender/search engine that you keep a local copy of and shared your recommendations of search results over a decentralized social network like Mastodon. Like a combination of Google Search, StumbleUpon, and Reddit. Search results get upvoted or downvoted, and ones that were actually helpful to friends of your friends will be higher ranked for you, and even more so for friends of friends who fit a similar pattern of web usage. There’s been a variety of specific implementations for this suggested. Here’s an example: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260652116_A_Collaborative_Decentralized_Approach_to_Web_Search
This is along the general theme of ‘we ought to take back ownership of our data and our internet rather than leaving it in the hands of corporate giants to mediate for us’.
I think there’s actually a pretty good solution to this that I’ve been looking forward to for years, and that I think the technology is now ready to support. Unfortunately, I’m too busy worrying about, I mean, working on AGI alignment to spend time on this currently. The idea is simple: an open source decentralized recommender/search engine that you keep a local copy of and shared your recommendations of search results over a decentralized social network like Mastodon. Like a combination of Google Search, StumbleUpon, and Reddit. Search results get upvoted or downvoted, and ones that were actually helpful to friends of your friends will be higher ranked for you, and even more so for friends of friends who fit a similar pattern of web usage. There’s been a variety of specific implementations for this suggested. Here’s an example: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260652116_A_Collaborative_Decentralized_Approach_to_Web_Search
This is along the general theme of ‘we ought to take back ownership of our data and our internet rather than leaving it in the hands of corporate giants to mediate for us’.