BenAlbahari comments on Bayesian Collaborative Filtering - Less Wrong

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Comment author: orthonormal 07 April 2010 12:21:59AM 1 point [-]

Rather, it's a reminder that more effort is spent on projects that can be immediately profitable, however trivial they may be in scope. If there were a pay market for intellectual content as robust as the one for movies currently is, we'd have seen this done already. (Alas, I don't see how that could happen in the near future.)

Comment author: BenAlbahari 07 April 2010 01:12:22AM 0 points [-]

Well there's a subset of questions on TakeOnIt where the correct answer has a financial reward/impact. An example of such a question was Is there a housing bubble in the United States?. These type of questions overlap with the kind of questions seen on prediction markets (which is a nice model for monetizing intellectual content). I'd be curious as to the relative accuracy between prediction markets and using collaborative filtering on expert predictions.