Can AI detect brilliance instead of just toxicity?

https://github.com/KiT-Maverik/svitlo

by kotyk • 1 year ago

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kotyk4• 1 year ago

Hey HN – I’m a solo dev and systems thinker.

This isn’t a product or a pitch. It’s a protocol idea, a manifesto – and a call for discussion.

SVITLO asks: what if AI could recognize brilliance, not just filter toxicity?

Today, algorithms reward noise, status, clout. But what if we ranked ideas by how much light they bring into the world — not by who says them?

The manifesto is short, radical, and public. It’s meant to provoke reflection — not sell anything.

Would love your thoughts, critiques, use cases — or reasons why this might fail.

PaulHoule3• 1 year ago

Hard to believe you can see brilliance in text itself. You can see signs of brilliance but not the actual thing.

For instance, take Albert Einstein. We think he's brilliant because he figured out things about physics that turned out to be true. Had he had the same ideas and these weren't true he'd be forgotten. It took this experiment

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_experiment

kotyk4• 1 year ago

That’s exactly the distinction SVITLO tries to make: It doesn't claim to detect “confirmed brilliance” — only its early cognitive signals.

We’re not trying to guess who will become famous. We’re looking for patterns in thinking — rare cognitive traits like:

connecting distant concepts,

reframing assumptions,

exploring without anchoring,

compressing complex ideas with clarity.

These are not “proofs” of genius — but signals often found in people whose ideas later change paradigms.

Einstein isn’t brilliant because the Eddington experiment confirmed him. He’s brilliant because his thought experiments, reframings of space-time, and fearless simplicity were already cognitive anomalies.

SVITLO wants to notice those anomalies — before the Eddington moment.

Can AI detect brilliance instead of just toxicity?

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