Executive summary: The author proposes a browser extension to improve online discourse by personalizing comment orderings for individual users based on models predicting user reactions.
Key points:
Social media encourages tribalism; communities drift towards groupthink even if founded for rational discourse.
Browser extension uses state-space models to predict user reactions (insightful, mind-changing etc.) to comments.
Extension reorders comments on sites like Reddit and YouTube to put most relevant ones first for each user.
Aggregates user feedback to surface best comments for new users. Compensates users for providing reactions via tokens.
Initially train models on LessWrong data; later enable privacy-preserving federated learning.
Main risks are product risk (users don’t want informative comments) and manipulation by bots/spam if opened to AI agents.
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Executive summary: The author proposes a browser extension to improve online discourse by personalizing comment orderings for individual users based on models predicting user reactions.
Key points:
Social media encourages tribalism; communities drift towards groupthink even if founded for rational discourse.
Browser extension uses state-space models to predict user reactions (insightful, mind-changing etc.) to comments.
Extension reorders comments on sites like Reddit and YouTube to put most relevant ones first for each user.
Aggregates user feedback to surface best comments for new users. Compensates users for providing reactions via tokens.
Initially train models on LessWrong data; later enable privacy-preserving federated learning.
Main risks are product risk (users don’t want informative comments) and manipulation by bots/spam if opened to AI agents.
This comment was auto-generated by the EA Forum Team. Feel free to point out issues with this summary by replying to the comment, and contact us if you have feedback.