Marqt.org lets you vote on the truth
I'm Arthur, and I wanted to share an MVP for Marqt.org, which lets you crowd-source the truth. John Stuart Mill said that "Truth emerges from the clash of ideas." In that spirit, Marqt brings two adversarial sides together to quantify truth and showcase the best arguments for each side. It is inspired by markets, where buyers and sellers discover a product's true price and update it dynamically. The ultimate aim is to build an open-source semantic knowledge base that represents the collective wisdom of humanity in real-time. If we can do this, I believe it can solve the problem of…
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I'm Arthur, and I wanted to share an MVP for Marqt.org, which lets you crowd-source the truth. John Stuart Mill said that "Truth emerges from the clash of ideas." In that spirit, Marqt brings two adversarial sides together to quantify truth and showcase the best arguments for each side. It is inspired by markets, where buyers and sellers discover a product's true price and update it dynamically. The ultimate aim is to build an open-source semantic knowledge base that represents the collective wisdom of humanity in real-time. If we can do this, I believe it can solve the problem of misinformation in the media and slow the virality of disinformation. More importantly, I believe can be a key part of the AGI stack and allow humans to be paid for building and maintaining it. So what is a marqt? A marqt is a short statement (120 chars or less) that can be true or false. You swipe right to "marq it" true or swipe left to "marq it" false (or use hotkeys j/k or t/f). Your "marq" counts toward a collective tally that determines how true or false any given marqt is (so something can be "68% true" or "93% false"). Unlike polls, marqts don't expire, so you can change your marq if new data or evidence comes to light or if you change your mind. After you "make your marq," you are encouraged to add a "remarq," or an explanation for your vote. Existing remarqs can be upvoted or downvoted based on how "remarqable" or "unremarqable" they are, a la Stack Overflow. You can also "make a marqt" by entering a statement into the marqt maker. You submit by marqing it true or false. It currently only accepts statements in the present tense ("current truths"), but "future truths" (predictions) will come down the line. Inside the marqt maker is a fine-tuned BERT model that roughly ensures the statement is sensical, grammatical, and not a question. "Show me the incentives and I will show you the outcome." -Charlie Munger The incentives in betting markets are to win money, but for every winner there is a loser on the other side, making it arguably a zero-sum game. The incentives in the marqt are to create engaging marqts that encourage the most participation through a point system called "marqs earned." The goal is eventually for people to be able to trade in their marqs earned for money (via a "marqtplace," of course). You earn one point for every marq you make, every remarq you add, every remarqable or unremarqable vote, and for every marqt you make. However, if you are the marqt maker, you collect all the points from the activity in your marqt – every marq, remarq, and remarqable/unremarqable vote. You also collect all the remarqable upvotes for your remarqs. Likewise, you lose points for unremarqable downvotes. You can view everything and interact with the UI and inference model in demo mode (without signing up), but I hope you sign up for an account. I intentionally am not using analytics or cookies because I'm not interested in secretly tracking what users do on the site, I'm interested in showcasing what they create. It's just an MVP for now. You may need to refresh the page every now and then, but please point out any bugs and feature requests. I specifically learned how to program a year and a half ago so that I could build Marqt.org because I believe it is important for society to accurately define truth in an age when information travels (and changes) faster than ever, and when LLMs so confidently lie and have been heavily prompted to avoid controversial topics. I have deep respect for the HN community, and I won't hide the fact that it's nerve-wracking to finally announce this because you're all so brilliant. I welcome your criticism and advice, and sincerely thank you for your time. Arthur [email protected] Front-end: JavaScript Back-end and API: Django/DRF ML: deberta-v3-xsmall via Hugging Face Deployed on: Google Cloud Run
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