arthurhur

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by arthurhur 3y ago
Okay, I think I have a decent working solution for the scrolling actions accidentally triggering the switches. Basically, if the action is more of a quick vertical swipe, it resets the switch to the previous state (so if delta of y > del
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by arthurhur 3y ago
Thanks for letting me know. I've actually been pushing a couple updates today to try to address this and figure out the right pressure or hold-time threshold before the slider activates. It's a tricky balance, but I just increased
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by arthurhur 3y ago
In the spirit of transparency, I wanted to share some of the high-level decisions that went into Marqt.org. I am happy to go into further detail or discuss any other aspects that I left out. Just prepare to roll your eyes at how basic I am
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Show HN: An attempt to assess truth quantitatively(marqt.org)
2 points by arthurhur 3y ago|4 comments
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by arthurhur 3y ago
> I may still be missing something, and I’m willing to be shown that, but I’m afraid that what you’ve described isn’t the wisdom of the crowd. Well, you are clearly correct that five users does not represent the wisdom of the crowd! When
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by arthurhur 3y ago
If I were to revise your summary, I would say that a marqt is a living online poll – you can vote on something today, but if you change your mind later, you can change your vote. I'm not sure what you mean by incentivizing pollsters an
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by arthurhur 3y ago
Thanks for that. I have shut off public access to that endpoint and, after reading your post 38 minutes after you posted it, had immediately shut off all access to the API while I was looking into it. It was something I was debating before
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by arthurhur 3y ago
Yes, the fact that we can both disagree on the definition of truth gets to the heart of the subjectivity of truth. I just believe that it can be quantified the same way we elect politicians and value companies. Consider a presidential elect
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by arthurhur 3y ago
That was a very thoughtful comment. Let me attempt to unpack it. My first motivation is that I believe network effects can be used to represent empirical truths and track how they change over time. The more people vote on a statement, the m
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by arthurhur 3y ago
I hear you. I mean, there has been an entire field of study devoted to defining what truth is for basically as long as the written word has existed. My basic premise is that: 1. Truth is subjective. 2. Truth is dynamic. I believe that truth
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by arthurhur 3y ago
Agreed. I just kicked it off with some initial ideas, but the idea is that open-sourcing a knowledge base will eventually run the entire range, from axiomatic statements (like F = ma) to incredibly subjective ones, like some of the ones in
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Show HN: Marqt.org lets you vote on the truth(marqt.org)
6 points by arthurhur 3y ago|15 comments