khafra comments on Bayesian Collaborative Filtering - Less Wrong

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Comment author: BenAlbahari 05 April 2010 04:40:33AM *  0 points [-]

Thinking out loud (this could be a terrible idea, "green hat" thinking alert!): I wonder if it would be interesting to be able to tag a quote as "fiction". There's so many insightful quotes that are spoken through the fictional characters of great authors. It seems a shame that such quotes are "illegitimate". Better to perhaps allow the quotes but tag them appropriately so they can be filtered out of prediction analysis. Thoughts?

Comment author: khafra 06 April 2010 08:17:06PM 1 point [-]

How would they be attributed? Valentine Michael's opinions are substantially different from Lazarus Long's.

Comment author: BenAlbahari 07 April 2010 01:20:07AM 1 point [-]

Simple model: a flag on a quote, present if it's a fictional character, with text preceding the quote explaining the source.

Complex model: Each fictional character is on par with an expert/influencer, with an extra field referencing back to the expert/influencer who's the author. E.g. you could look up all the quotes of "Sherlock Holmes" or all the fictional quotes of characters written by Arthur Conan Doyle.