tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post3364897941224511233..comments2024-01-15T13:17:33.771-08:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Human computation and lemonsGreg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-31795591583709649502010-08-19T12:58:26.626-07:002010-08-19T12:58:26.626-07:00I think the question of exploitation is ridiculous...I think the question of exploitation is ridiculous. All contribution is voluntary. If anything, MTurk offers some alternatives for those who currently are not productive enough to be employed at minimum wage.<br /><br />Also, risk premiums are a perfectly reasonable solution, although they are not the only one. <br />Just to think of one example, people could organize a reputation or certification system, where people who do good work get labelled. Those people should then be able to get higher fees for this kind of task.Julien Couvreurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15158751165174523704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-61999146729441869922010-08-18T07:06:59.402-07:002010-08-18T07:06:59.402-07:00Hi, Chad. There's a few startups with product...Hi, Chad. There's a few startups with products that layer on top of MTurk to manage issuing redundant tasks, help structure the tasks so they yield good results, and provide better quality, yep.<br /><br />But that kind of misses the point. The point isn't that there aren't ways for people to get productive work out of MTurkers for some tasks. The point is that wages are depressed on MTurk because of the risk requesters take on of getting no useful work and because requesters have to put so much effort into anti-cheating measures, including paying for a lot of redundant work.<br /><br />I agree with Panos that the solution likely is around signaling and reputation. I also think those are things Amazon should have implemented from the beginning and that the current problems were predictable from the beginning.Greg Lindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-5206373478029356942010-08-17T22:03:05.012-07:002010-08-17T22:03:05.012-07:00Are you familiar with Crowdflower ( http://crowdfl...Are you familiar with Crowdflower ( http://crowdflower.com/about ), founded by Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt, two of my former colleagues? Among other things, Crowdflower provides worker reputation management services over AMT and other crowdsourcing systems.Chadhttp://chadwa.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com