Caterina Fake shares some Hunch data

[_pius]

http://www.caterina.net/archive/001171.html

[kingsley_20]

Recommender systems are hard to do even within domains with well understood semantics. Applying them broadly across all human decisions seems to be a bit of stretch. Makes for very amusing anecdotes though.

[dmix → kingsley_20]

Starting with a simple system + lots of traffic is a good start. They can reiterate until it works.

From my understanding network effects have a positive influence on expert systems.