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yeah absolutely, AI def muddies the waters, but I think if you got the settings right, it'd be more helpful than harmful

getting there is obv the real challenge

The way twitter functioned during covid was incredible. I'd love to be a part of something that recreates that kind of dynamic across a whole bunch of topics, but without the weaknesses.

Roads been rough, but destination remains in sight afaict.

I'm here because I see this as our best hope of creating an epistemic substrate at scale that reflects reality. Which is critically important for the type of civilisation we were aiming to be.

I saw jack announce they were thinking about it on twitter, and when I saw Jay get selected I went and read up on her background and values.

I got my invite as soon as why started handing em out in matrix.

Honestly wonder just how far back the pattern goes. Maybe this is just how a certain subset of humanity operates. It is effective. Learned behaviour.

every accusation is a confession

Make a labeller maybe? If you can create a reliable detection mechanism that people can subscribe to, it would be able to scale.

Love this.

Alright.

I kind of hate to say it, but I think the Will Stancil saga has become important to pay attention to in that it illustrates something that's gone very wrong with the behavior of purported adults using social media

it's really Noticeable how people trust will stancil's account of his discussions with the verge way more than any of the verge's employees. (to be clear, I think this is the correct position)

I think there's real value in this approach. No harm in starting out this way, and adjusting later if needed. Can't do that the other way around.

🧵 People don't have any inkling of how social media (& regular media; all sorts of media) influences their attitudes. But what we see is who we become. (Get off of X!)

In this study, subjects were randomly assigned to view a chronological or algorithmic X feed. Exposure to the latter led users "to

Been following you a long time, and held similar opinions, but haven't been on social much recently.

Where can I get a summary of what's been going on?

those were quite the days, yeah

absolutely

in New Zealand we started giving legal personhood to rivers and other natural features to give a legal basis for acting in their interests

communitylaw.org.nz/community-la...

The biggest challenge here, is figuring out a way to define and ascertain bad faith. There is no measurable part of a post that you can see and go 'ahah, thats bad faith'. There are a bunch of other harder to measure factors involved.

If you solve that, you can solve a LOT of the problems we have.

Engaging in good faith with someone who is acting in bad faith is a recipe to get hurt.

Will is quite correct here.

It's a good time to see them, they have their pups and can be quite playful around now.

Looking forward to your talk at the University of Otago in a few days.

Interesting, that would suggest this could be a filtering mechanism.

Glad to see you raising this. It is the right long term decision, we just have to get there.

this is what i mean about the new liberal internationalism: we, liberals, need to start thinking about what it means to organize liberal-liberal rather than state-state

I see a lot of well meaning people (not OP) who like to talk about countries (usually the ones they're from or have an affinity with) as being steadfast bastions in the new cold war and I cannot stress enough that you have failed the assignment if you think this

I think the people building Claude are trying to optimise it for code. But there are tradeoffs. And so as it become better at one, it becomes worse at the other.

I think you could optimise an LLM around writing, and would like to see that. Ain’t the expertise of the builders, like code, tho.

I feel like I know what you're getting at, but can't really characterise it.

I wonder if an aspect is also that it doesn't process information like us. Both in terms of speed, but also it very clearly misses stuff we'd def catch. But it also recalls stuff we'd never manage.

It's just... different.

This is why im a bit uncomfortable with the block culture on here. I get why it's there, but so many potential connections ended over what are sometimes very arbitrary signals.

Oh! I loved this on Twitter.

and in ‘evidence based policy’ at the governance level, we only act on evidence. if we can’t measure or model it, it doesn’t exist.

that’s problematic, as there’s a lot of important stuff for resilience we can’t easily model

Did you consider adding a "I don't like this post" or some type of similar option at the front of the options?

It would be a useful way to filter out reports that come from people who are just reacting to content they don't like, rather than is specifically breaking some type of rule.