diff --git a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md index b7e5de304..47b11063b 100644 --- a/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md +++ b/the agora as a social knowledge graph.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ - Because links between two nodes in an Agora can be [[annotated]] (i.e. #tagged or qualified by other nearby links) and have multiplicity, the Agora is in fact a [[hypergraph]]. - Individual agoras are expected to federate and organize into greater Agora networks, which are in themselves graph-like at a higher level. - On a system level, there exists a [[reference Agora]] that provides a minimum viable implementation for the [[underlay]], [[interlay]], [[overlay]] components of the [[distributed knowledge graph]]. - - In the reference Agora, links can be said to [[fan out]] by default in the sense that they are evaluated in social context + - In the reference Agora, links can be said to [[fan out]] by default in the sense that they are evaluated in social context in individual contributions (resulting in following a link sometimes surfacing more than what the individual author envisioned.) - We are using said reference Agora to refine the proposed system and run experiments. - Some hypotheses that we are testing: - Individual contributions can be useful on average when served best-effort in a social context at the cost of adopting a default social stance (at little extra effort over baseline), and this mechanism benefits from network effects.