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		throwthrowuknow on Sept 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into au... All the more reason to empower people to review, rate, comment on, block, downvote, and otherwise signal when something is incorrect.

alganet on Sept 11, 2024 [–]

You realize it's a feedback loop, don't you?

If the people interacting are not reliable, then it means the system is not reliable. Karma points, youtube views, thumbs ups, likes... none of those things have any significant value as an indicator of correctedness.

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