It’s Your Move
May 8, 2008 — goodmind
Since the end of the Cold War, high profile chess matches had seemingly gone the way of communism. Democracy via checkmate has evolved to the next level with CrowdChess. (The Wisdom of Crowds has now officially spawned more spin-offs than All in the Family).
TechCrunch provided some surprisingly critical commentary on how the CrowdChess collective will fare in match play against the world’s best. Though the game is “worth watching;”
“…the voting system used is too democratic. In the current setup, each vote is weighted equally, independent of experience or rating. The concept of having a “human super computer” capable of beating any challenger is compelling, but we’ll never see anything like that if the voting pool is watered down by people who are clueless.”
We see the point, plus the rigid hierarchy, and correlation between rank and level of power in the game itself don’t easily mesh with the democratic principles of equality. However, wouldn’t any democratic election process be boring if it weren’t for the clueless people?
