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Pay readers for their curation services and develop reputations as thinking meat bags

does this mean, pay them to recommend/review? My impression of the self-publishing world (at least as far as fiction goes) is that there is a huge amount of this. Everyone is battling to get seen, and so you have to beg, plead, bribe reviewers to talk about your book, leave a review, mention it on their pod. It didn't seem to be working well (and my interaction with it was from before the AI wave).

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I was referring to how we reward zappers for identifying quality content.

That’s the secret sauce and figuring out a way to do it that doesn’t have the bizarre Keynesian Beauty Contest incentives would be a game changer.

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Rewards are such a tough nut to crack. It doesn't feel like we've got it figured out in a way that really drives people to look for the good posts and zap 'em.

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Pay readers for their curation services and develop reputations as thinking meat bags

If content becomes abundant, reputation and curation become more valuable — but I’m not convinced humans become editors for machines. We still choose the questions.

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I’m not suggesting that we do become editors for machines. If people don’t want to consume AI content, then surfacing human content is a service that should be rewarded.

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