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Held once every four years, this is a round robin battle between hiveminds (for example Reddit vs. Digg). The competitions could revolve around typical idolized internet hobbies such hacking, porn perusing, meme generating, etc. or even real world stuff like, first community to discover something and
publish in Nature. There would have to be rules. Rules that can't be broken. And a way to determine that.
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[+], though details need working out. Either a real world
accomplishment, or the solving of some puzzle would work
well, in terms of verifiability, and the latter's probably
much easier to implement. Publishing in Nature might
work, but it's too 20th century; should be something more
Internet-y Producing works of art would be good, too,
though that'd require a jury. |
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If this worked out the first
couple of times, the organizers would, for sure, start
treating the competition as a problem-solving machine,
setting questions like "prove the Reimann conjecture" or
"predict the value of a Euro, in Dollars, 18 months from
now." |
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Halfbakery vs. Whynot.net, practical category. |
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Hive Chess could be interesting. Everyone submits a
move and the most popular move is used. |
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Or a co-op version of an existing God game where the
characters are drones. You would each make a tiny
move per day like 'carry a piece of wood from
lumberjack to timber mill'. Anyone could initiate
building, but many other people would have to
continue it to finish it. |
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Digg is losing. It announced today that 30% of its staff are being let go, I believe. |
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Anyone else read that as 'piratical category' at first? |
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Digg sucks since the restructure, no-one goes there anymore |
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//Hive Chess could be interesting. Everyone submits a move and the most popular move is used. |
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Now this I like..Democracy chess |
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@[mouseposture] sp. Riemann, shirley? |
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[pertinax] You're right, asking them to prove a conjecture
that doesn't even exist, like the Reimann, might be a tad
*too* challenging. |
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"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in very large numbers" |
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