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Originally Posted by Daithi
You sign up for a service like Amazon and they ask you half-a-dozen questions. Do you usually agree with the conservative or liberal viewpoints? On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest, indicate if religion is a part of your life. Etc. Of course this survey is optional, but if you fill it out then Amazon could adjust the ratings you see on books based on how like minded individuals voted. So when some people click on Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand they would see a high rating if they were conservative and maybe a single star if they identified themselves as liberal.
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Yup though I think it can be done without even asking people to fill out any questionnaire.
You simply rate as many books as you have read, especially you give a thumbs up to all the books that you really love, and based on that, the system will generate recommendations just for you. Simply a system like "People who love the books you love, also love these books."
This way, if a religious group try to game the system, their ratings won't affect anything other than how they are getting recommendations for themselves.
Last.fm, Amazon and Netflix already have recommendations for music, books and movies, their recommendations are already quite good. I'm sure things can be improved though once the Government makes a bigger deal out of trying to get a very diverse amount of artists noticed more according to their talent, their potential and their true worth. Basically what the Government wants is a system where talented artists automatically get noticed and they automatically get recommended and they automatically get the audience that they deserve, without spending even a minimum on advertising, marketing, lawyers, distributors or any of those intermediaries that corrupt the arts in the current system.