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amichail
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Can good puzzle solvers generate interesting news?
« on: Mar 12th, 2008, 1:15pm » |
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Instead of voting in social news as with reddit/digg, why not have submitters compete via a puzzle?
If the submitter wants to push his/her submission to the front page, then he/she will need to be quite skillful at a puzzle chosen by that news site.
Note that the submitted news item may have nothing to do with puzzles.
Note also that you would need to compete separately for each submission.
If the puzzle is chosen carefully, then I think you may get interesting results. For example, imagine what would happen if doing well in the puzzle requires strong math skills vs strong verbal skills, etc.
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Re: Can good puzzle solvers generate interesting n
« Reply #2 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 9:57am » |
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I liked this bit from http://www.profy.com/2008/03/16/numbrosia-merit-based-news/
Quote:| Aside from the hilarious mash-up of casual gaming and somewhat social news, Numbrosia may actually have the tiny germ of an idea somewhere in that ugly, ugly site. |
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In any case, I don't think there is a strong correlation between an ability to solve riddles and an ability to post interesting links.
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Re: Can good puzzle solvers generate interesting n
« Reply #4 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 12:57pm » |
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on Mar 17th, 2008, 12:23pm, amichail wrote:That is not research, that's a wikipedia article. It also doesn't mention anything at all about a link between general intelligence and an ability to share links that hold someone's interest.
Not to mention there's a section dedicated to objections to the idea of a 'general intelligence factor'.
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I imagine professional spammers might have quite a high IQ, it certainly takes a bit of intelligence to get around all the anti-spam measures people invent. As well as to set up bot networks, etc.
Not that the topic of spam is very relevant in the first place. Because a lot of things that aren't spam are still of no interest to me at all (like sports).
I really can't imagine what line of reasoning you're going by. Because you seem to be assuming that if something interests a person with high IQ, it must be of interest to everyone, regardless of IQ. Whereas some topics would be very inaccesible to people with average intelligence.
Not, mind you, that one needs much more than tenacity and obsession to solve numbrosia puzzles. Links would be rated not so much on IQ as on the obsessive character of the poster.
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Re: Can good puzzle solvers generate interesting n
« Reply #5 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 1:05pm » |
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on Mar 17th, 2008, 12:57pm, towr wrote:| I really can't imagine what line of reasoning you're going by. Because you seem to be assuming that if something interests a person with high IQ, it must be of interest to everyone, regardless of IQ. Whereas some topics would be very inaccesible to people with average intelligence. |
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I suspect that people without high IQs would be curious to see what high IQ people find as interesting news/links. It has a bit of a freak show character to it.
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« Reply #6 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 3:26pm » |
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I like obscure technical articles about the design of Magic: the Gathering cards. I'm also highly intelligent.
I suspect a very small portion of the population cares about the reasoning behind the current width of the pinstripe on the border of M:tG cards...
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« Reply #7 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 4:30pm » |
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on Mar 17th, 2008, 3:26pm, rmsgrey wrote:I like obscure technical articles about the design of Magic: the Gathering cards. I'm also highly intelligent.
I suspect a very small portion of the population cares about the reasoning behind the current width of the pinstripe on the border of M:tG cards... |
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If you are unusual in that regard, then it doesn't matter.
If you are typical in that regard, then that's rather curious and people might be interested in checking out these obscure technical things that preoccupy smart people.
Note however that the score of a submission is equal to your score from the last 24 hours divided by the number of your submissions. So you might want to have only one submission to maximize its score.
Do you really want to devote that one submission to obscure technical information?
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« Reply #8 on: Mar 17th, 2008, 5:43pm » |
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on Mar 17th, 2008, 3:26pm, rmsgrey wrote:I'm also highly intelligent.
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Modest too... 
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« Reply #9 on: Mar 18th, 2008, 5:02am » |
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on Mar 17th, 2008, 5:43pm, ima1trkpny wrote:
Modest too... |
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Hey, just because you may well be more intelligent than me, doesn't mean I'm not in the top small fraction of one percent...
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« Reply #10 on: Mar 18th, 2008, 8:24am » |
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on Mar 18th, 2008, 5:02am, rmsgrey wrote:
Hey, just because you may well be more intelligent than me, doesn't mean I'm not in the top small fraction of one percent... |
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Why don't you two settle this once and for all by competing on Numbrosia? 
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