inkan on Nostr: I think listening to the episode made me more sceptical of WoT. When discussing what ...

I think listening to the episode made me more sceptical of WoT.

When discussing what problem would be solved by WoT, he (I forget which one is which) says around 1:24:20

"... it would solve the problem of like what to pay attention to because it would automatically rank all the good stuff from your communities and down-rank all the bad stuff ..."

This sounds at the same time a bit naive and also a bit Orwellian.

I mean "what to pay attention to" and distinguishing "good stuff" from "bad stuff" sound like major life questions, the sort of thing one might want to spend a few years studying philosophy, literature or science for, or maybe go travelling the world or something.

I can see how one might be attracted to the idea to get these questions resolved by an algorithm, but the project seems a bit chimerical.

In fairness, he might have just meant something much more mundane, like filtering out completely obvious spam, but I was struck by the way he put it.