I have my reservations about BlueSky. The hopeful take is that it’ll replicate pre-Muskening Twitter and the dense social graph and p2p conversational feel of it over being a feed machine. So far it seems like political dissidents from X.
February 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I have my reservations about BlueSky. The hopeful take is that it’ll replicate pre-Muskening Twitter and the dense social graph and p2p conversational feel of it over being a feed machine. So far it seems like political dissidents from X.
X has turned into a slop engagement machine with far-right characteristics. Warpcast I could return to but feels more like a Twitter successor for web3 people rather than a web3-backed Twitter which is what I hoped it would be
February 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
X has turned into a slop engagement machine with far-right characteristics. Warpcast I could return to but feels more like a Twitter successor for web3 people rather than a web3-backed Twitter which is what I hoped it would be
This is of course all within the laptop job/knowledge work sphere. Stuff that is embodied is still a few paradigm shifts away due to robotics.
December 23, 2024 at 10:24 AM
This is of course all within the laptop job/knowledge work sphere. Stuff that is embodied is still a few paradigm shifts away due to robotics.
As the adage goes, the only way out is through. We can’t unsee or unlearn technical developments due to the game theoretic properties of a multiagent world. So we need to design a better way rather than relegate it to those who don’t share our ethics
November 30, 2024 at 7:08 PM
As the adage goes, the only way out is through. We can’t unsee or unlearn technical developments due to the game theoretic properties of a multiagent world. So we need to design a better way rather than relegate it to those who don’t share our ethics
Now Paul Graham for tech Twitter
April 10, 2024 at 7:20 AM
Now Paul Graham for tech Twitter
As I would learn time and time again in college, opportunism was more important than sheer effort
April 29, 2023 at 12:35 AM
As I would learn time and time again in college, opportunism was more important than sheer effort
Welcome! Not sure how bsky will evolve but it does feel like a twitter microcosm at the moment. Most interesting twitter people are here so that’s reassuring!
April 29, 2023 at 12:20 AM
Welcome! Not sure how bsky will evolve but it does feel like a twitter microcosm at the moment. Most interesting twitter people are here so that’s reassuring!
Reposted by Sharon
systems are made up of both code/technology and people/culture. neither one fully determines the other, but their interplay shapes outcomes!
April 13, 2023 at 1:41 AM
systems are made up of both code/technology and people/culture. neither one fully determines the other, but their interplay shapes outcomes!
with crypto, there is the internet of money concept so the distinction is clear. What about new services rooted in protocols?
April 13, 2023 at 1:44 AM
with crypto, there is the internet of money concept so the distinction is clear. What about new services rooted in protocols?
Vgr seems tpot adjacent at best. Would be interesting to see a version of Scott Alexander’s idea map that categorized rationalist canon for the twitter scene though I fear it’ll make things to legible
April 12, 2023 at 10:23 PM
Vgr seems tpot adjacent at best. Would be interesting to see a version of Scott Alexander’s idea map that categorized rationalist canon for the twitter scene though I fear it’ll make things to legible