Real Karma?

Question

I was wondering, with AI and stuff, why do we still rely on human likes and dislikes? (in general, not HN-specific)It seems like an ideal application of text-based inference: to assign points depending on how someone interacts in a discussion (using correct factual arguments, not straying away, not misdirecting, being considerate and reasonable, and so on).It surprises me that no one tried it before.So, why we don't have any automated explicit karma-based moderator anywhere?

PaulHoule · Accepted Answer

I&rsquo;ve done conceptual work on this for the last year, my RSS reader does try picking high quality comments from HN relevant to my interests together with 108 other RSS feeds. The results are promising but not revolutionary yet.Further progress is blocked by the need to develop a general test classifier, that is blocked by the project of migrating my arangodb systems (like my RSS reader) to Postgres.

joules77 · Answer

During such a discussion it will probably become more interesting to chat with the bot about the decisions its making, than to chat with the other person :)

mytailorisrich · Answer

This ignores and negates the whole point of "like" and "dislike", which are ways for readers to react to a comment based of what they think of it.