On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Steve Richfield via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > There seems to be some highly questionable underlying assumptions in this > discussion. After spending 3 months of full time effort researching a health > problem I had, only to find out that there was plenty on the Internet about > it, but no way to instruct a search engine to find it for me, I created > DrEliza. Anyway, the questionable assumptions I see are: > 1. That ANYONE can be "trusted" (EVERYONE is laboring under misconceptions).
The default behavior in my proposal is not to trust a new peer. Diffie-Hellman key exchange is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, but this is not a problem because at the point when it is used you have no more reason to trust the intended peer than the attacker. > 2. That you can successfully guess what you want to search for (the > difference between problem solving and question answering). That is the incentive to make your peers smarter. > 3. That the correct information won't be buried in millions of miscreant > entries. Of course it will. Google has solved this problem. The solution can be distributed. > 4. That you can recognize the correct answer when it is displayed right in > front of you (preconceived misconceptions). Of course you can't. If you knew what the answer was, you wouldn't need to ask. You have to rely on the sender's reputation. -- -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
