Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea

The first one is utterly stupid.

Housing is a very complex issue that goes well beyond the sheer cost of the housing unit.

Do I think “solving homelessness” is easy with $10B? No. Does the calculation made in the answer makes any sense: absolutely not.

Yes, I also assumed an imperfect system with cases of fraud for the medical exam question and was quite surprised by the overly simplistic response.

Seriously. And not even to build a house, but to make a single person not homeless. Give me a break.

I love the idea of this. I want it to succeed.

But most of the questions I got... They weren't very good and not just because I got them wrong - I got a bunch of them right that I shouldn't have.

For example, the one about homelessness, where it ends with a guy saying our politicians would rather use the money for genocide.

I downloaded the statement for that reason, got told my vote was correct and then it came up with it was correct only because of the first part of it.

I think you're trying to import statements automatically and I fear that won't work. I also fear that you're gonna get, just crap, to be honest. And your social network doesn't deserve that.

I think your best bet is to look at the kind of questions asked on the LSAT, and just do a bunch of essentially IQ and general-knowledge questions. Take the input from Twitter as inspiration, use it as a template and it might work.

One thing you might consider is wanting to filter out people who can't see past their own political agenda.

You can do that by making enough questions so that you're sure to catch people, no matter what they believe on all the hot issues of the day. This probably isn't as hard as it sounds, there's only going to be seven or eight hot issues.

You pick three of them and you should be pretty certain that you will cover the entire spectrum. So for example, you could make sure to include, pro LGBT, pro abortion and pro guns. You would catch most people on that and then you should exclude them if they cannot see past their blindness.

I hope you make this work, the world needs it.

I got a 10 out of 10 because I've seen these strawmans in center-right arguments before. Definitely promotes thinking inside the box; the homelessness question presupposes the most expensive solution (buying the homeless homes) in opposition to annual costs that would probably go down over time. I doubt both figures.