John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) “So many judging tasks could be improved by aggregating partial orderings, and in”

2026.04.06 19:36

So many judging tasks could be improved by aggregating partial orderings, and in the limit, just ordering pairs. The annual Libertarian Futurist Society novel awards discussion is starting, and while I would like to participate on some level, there is no way I have time to read an entire slate of novels. However, I will likely read at least two from the list, and I could give a relative assessment. This cries out for the use of something like ELO ranking, as in chess competition, perhaps with some suggestions to get sufficient coverage. Peer and out-of-chain employee performance calibrations could probably also benefit from a greater quantity of sparse pairwise comparisons

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