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

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Comment author: Alexandros 11 May 2010 06:47:48AM 0 points [-]

It may be cheaper than human labour, but when you're working at google scale, it still costs a lot, and there's only so much you can devote to each of the billions of pages on the web. That said, I agree with you that even if it wasn't the issue, nailing down a precise definition is an even harder issue. I will probably update the article to reflect that.