Strange7 comments on Is Google Paperclipping the Web? The Perils of Optimization by Proxy in Social Systems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 11 May 2010 12:00:35AM 2 points [-]

Its skewed value system is derailing the web contrary to the desires of most of the participants (except for the manipulators, I guess).

I suspect even the manipulators would prefer that the web as a whole run more efficiently and that fewer people manipulate it. After all, a healthier organism with fewer parasites can spare more blood each for those which remain.

Comment author: Alexandros 11 May 2010 10:56:01AM 0 points [-]

Fair enough, although even the best manipulators would not prefer that the system is fixed rather than made harder to manipulate.