Henry Lieberman

[myclob]

I am looking for feedback for my idea. Could you tell me what you
think about it?

In a few words, I think that discussion boards can be re-arranged in a
way that, if they are combine an algorithm could promote advancements
In AI.

Google could make a decision making algorithm by looking at two
opposite ideas, and trying to promote the better idea. Google already,
sort of does this, buy deciding which websites are better, and we love
them for it. But lets take out the middle man. Lets let Google (or
some other search engine) not just organize/promote
websites-with-ideas, lets let Google promote specific ideas. For
instance I bet that you will get higher ranked pages for the idea that
"freedom of speech is good" than "Freedom of speech is bad."

Google, or maybe another search engine, could do this well for a
number of reasons:
Google currently has the best algorithm for figuring out which
websites have the most links to them. It is assumed that better
websites have more links to them. It is kind of like online democracy
or a collective soul of the internet. Google could use this technology
to figure out if websites that say "George Bush is an Idiot" or
websites that say, "John Carrie is an idiot" have a higher average
"Google Rank".

Google already has the technology to allow for synonym search. Google
could include in it's ranking all of the websites that say, "George
bush is an idiot", "George bush is a moron", and so forth.

Truth
Of course you wouldn't promote this website as saying, "Come to
Google, we have the truth" you would say, "This is the collective soul
of the internet." These are the decisions the internet would make if
it was a person.

Transparency
To help maintain a transparent process, you should list the top 10
pages that agree, with and disagree with, the idea.

For more information, you could check out my site at:
http://ideastockexchange.com/

Do you have any feedback for me?

[myclob]

Mr. Laub,

Yes, this kind of idea can be worthwhile. There are have been a
couple of projects
that have tried to extract "point of view" from text, by trying to
compare how different
sources describe the same things. Here are some references:

Warren Sack, "Indexing Multimedia by Ideology," in Proceedings of the
American Association of Artificial
Intelligence Workshop on Indexing and Reuse of Multimedia, Seattle,
WA, July 1994.

W. Sack, Representing and recognizing point of view, in: Proceedings
of The American Association of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium
on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Knowledge Navigation and
Retrieval, Cambridge, MA, AAAI Press, 1995.

Warren Sack, "Actor-Role Analysis: Ideology, Point of View and the
News," in New Perspectives on
Narrative Perspective, Will Van Peer and Seymour Chatman, Editors
(New York: SUNY
Press, 2001).

J. Budzik, K. Hammond, L. Birnbaum, and M. Krema. Beyond similarity.
In Working Notes of the AAAI-
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/budzik00beyond.html

That, combined with a Google-like populatity link analysis, could
yield the kind of thing you're talking about.
Obviously, it wouldn't work perfectly, but would certainly be worth a
try.

Best of luck with your work,

Henry Lieberman

[myclob]

i don't have any particular response to youor idea, but it does remind
me of some ideas i've heard attributed to peter norvig (norwig?)
you might look into that

richard