How much would you be willing to spend on a "mechanical Turk-type search" for "repair parts for product XYZ?
On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 8:55 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm restarting this thread on plug-talk, since it is > about social concerns, not using linux per se. > > Some random chatter related to "free" big data services. > > "Freedom isn't free" > "If you get something for free, you are the product" > ... etc ... > > We are barrelling towards a future where we let opaque > "AI" code make choices for us ... and the choices offered > seem to be getting worse for thoughtcriminal freethinkers > like me ... and most of you. > > One of my biggest problems is "search". Which Google used > to be pretty good for; now I get scattershot drivel rather > than answers to the questions I ask. Duckduckgo is the > same drivel sent to everyone - I guess that's anonymity. > > For example, "where can I buy repair parts for product X" > tells me where to buy new product X ... or Y, or Z. > Repair parts companies and small repair businesses aren't > in the search results, even if those are what I am asking > for. It used to be that companies paid for top placement > in results, and were identified as such - now ALL the > results seem to be push advertising of some sort. > > So ... imagine a "mechanical turk" approach - you submit a > request, the request propagates through a network of humans > who know humans who know humans, and the path that succeeds > is rewarded, while the path that defrauds is punished. > > Somehow. Perhaps brownie points convertable to informal > professional services. You give me good advice, or help > me find it elsewhere, and I weed somebody else's garden. > The benefits eventually bounce back to you as a service > that you want. The kind of transaction we used to use > money for, before money became something that governments > print to buy weapons. > > My principle goal for using these networks is to give the > underemployed something productive and prideful to do. > An unemployed steel worker probably knows lots of things > that would help me. And somebody I can help can help the > steel worker. Better than wasting time on twitter and TV. > > Random thoughts that might inspire a focused and practical > solution, and programmers to cobble up a beta prototype. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- John Sechrest . Need to schedule a meeting : http://sechrest.youcanbookme.com . . . . [email protected] . @sechrest <http://www.twitter.com/sechrest> . http://www.oomaat.com . _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
