Mediation

About the machine learning which powers Community Notes, and some implications for dispute resolution

By
Bruce Greig
on
September 27, 2023

Can the machine learning which X / Twitter use to find and highlight helpful Community Notes also help you find a resolution to your dispute?

It looks like the same principles which allow X/Twitter to find very helpful Community Notes can help you find a solution to your dispute.

(At around 3:45 I say "tweets" when I mean "notes")

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Further reading:

The original Birdwatch paper from the team at Twitter who built this system:

https://github.com/twitter/communitynotes/blob/main/birdwatch_paper_2022_10_27.pdf

Vitalik Buterin offering a slightly more user-friendly explanation:

https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html

Transcript of my conversation with Bard AI after I’d read both those papers but still didn’t understand it:

https://g.co/bard/share/17db4a795a58

An excellent explanation of the underlying machine learning system as used by Netflix, with a little spreadsheet so you can follow along. This is what got me over the line in terms of understanding what was going on:

https://towardsdatascience.com/netflix-and-chill-building-a-recommendation-system-in-excel-c69b33c914f4