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Hi Len, There are some very successful technologies out there that are essentially powered by the people. PageRank is a great example of that. -Dom > Which makes it suitable for picking the contestants on > American Idol but probably not for picking tools to > use in surgery. > > The problem of the 'wisdom of crowds' is knowing > 'crowds of what?' in advance of applying the wisdom. > > It's not simply a matter of merging but also of > knowing what levels of abstract to concrete terms > a merged term belongs to. > > object -> vehicle -> car > > merge: transportation > > The problem of Darwinian systems is that some > competitors agree not to compete and also to > eliminate the third party, aka, market fixing. > That is the chimp way. You are building a > chimp ontology. > > That's fine. Chimps need them. > > len > > > From: ROR [mailto:dev@r...] > > Hi Jonathan, > > Good questions! I think the best way to look at the meaningfuel wiki > is as some sort of "natural selection metadata". Some terms will > vanish after two weeks, other more adequate terms, will live forever. > Similar terms (i.e. from different ontologies) will compete, and here > too, only the most adequate ones will survive. > > >From time to time we plan to produce a release of the dictionary, > which will only contain those terms that have reached sufficient > stability and maturity. > > --
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