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This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
don't feel ready to be written up as a full post
I think the process of writing them up might make them worse (i.e. longer than they need to be)
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I worry a lot that the binary "AI-written" filter is a completely different dimension from what we actually want: a quality indicator for things that haven't gotten many votes yet.
I do think it may straightforwardly be possible to build an AI model that predicts "karma within first 2 weeks" or something with reasonable accuracy, and that that'd be an improvement over status quo for determining post visibility for like the first 6 hours (maybe we gradually fade from "AI predicted karma" to "real karma" continuously over some period).
This is an experiment in short-form content on LW2.0. I'll be using the comment section of this post as a repository of short, sometimes-half-baked posts that either:
I ask people not to create top-level comments here, but feel free to reply to comments like you would a FB post.