daros wrote:in this well known example the problem points to his own paradigm
only the content creator is able to give the correct label.
i'm joking... by sure it's possible to reach something interesting with collaborative knowledge + databases but the ESP game has for me a bit disappointing approach.
But that's what human knowledge is all about: quality, and in terms of human knowledge quality is not a gift, is an ownership, a property. For instance, you may know there's a certain football world cup event each year or, another human may have a larger database about the same event, like dates, records and all best plays, and at that point you just reach different data references to the same subject, alas, different knowledge qualities, a better example is "language".
As in ESP game the only difference is if dumb and dumber are playing or Ferrara vs Frank Gehry, that as is much more knowledge in raw power between one surce to another, like in "power to the masses" or 8086 vs Xeon, at one end you will have a low quality database and at the other a high quality knowledge. In one side an elephant boa eaten and in the other my uncle's hat.