Community Notes is a big innovation. I wrote them a weird letter with lots of instructions for how to build something weirdly close to it after J6. I’m guessing it had almost nothing to do with them implementing it but we do need a decentralized editor and I will die on this hill no matter how autistic and spergy it may seem. …
Community Notes is a big innovation. I wrote them a weird letter with lots of instructions for how to build something weirdly close to it after J6. I’m guessing it had almost nothing to do with them implementing it but we do need a decentralized editor and I will die on this hill no matter how autistic and spergy it may seem. Elon pouring more money and attention on that is an unalloyed good.
He’s got right of appeal and public trial with transparent rules on his roadmap which I also think is a good thing. I can see him *almost* getting things right, but I do think working 120 hours a week has made him really nutty.
Agree with Katie on the pricing for Premium Twitter. Her blue check mark should be paid for by simps who subscribe to her. The pricing for business is all wrong, and should be a nominal fee for the business to enroll and then charge per badge beyond a certain amount so you’d get a lot of people with self-importance issues —like writers, sorry— fighting with each other to collect more badges. LIke, look here is my NYT budget, my WaPo badge, my Lighting a Fire without Matches Badge.
On the locking down of Twitter, I believe that he’s trying to avoid people using twitter to scrape tweets for LLM training. Which I think he just needs to throw in the towel on. Twitter isn’t going to be a good LLM training data mine as currently configured, unless he does something like I’ve spergally laid out my substack where he specifically creates the decentralized news editor where he would get a premium fact-checked data set that also has signal in it on how to reason and argue.
I wish he would have just made a good offer to buy Substack and turn the running of Twitter over to that team with maybe some input from him. He needs to extract himself from that company.
Community Notes are indeed great! They make up for a lot of capricious behavior on Musk's part.
And about twitter not being visible, the history in the episode just doesn't seem right to me. I had to switch to third party apps like Nitter way before Musk took over twitter, I think due to a login prompt that kept kicking me to the homepage. I was able to switch back early after his takeover, and it's only been recently that I had to return to Nitter.
Imagine if we had community notes for the entire internet not just twitter. That’s the hill I die on. And not just for bad reputation but good reputation.
I don’t have a twitter account because my wife already says I’m on here too much.
Twitter always prompted you for a login if you did much scrolling around. But you could usually at least read the tweet you were linked to and a few others before you got the prompt. Now, you literally cannot see a TweeX other than the one you are directly linked to, unless you log in.
You can't even just land on a profile page, where a lot of journalists keep their contact information. Prior to Musk, you could even land on an abbreviated explore page.
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Community Notes is a big innovation. I wrote them a weird letter with lots of instructions for how to build something weirdly close to it after J6. I’m guessing it had almost nothing to do with them implementing it but we do need a decentralized editor and I will die on this hill no matter how autistic and spergy it may seem. Elon pouring more money and attention on that is an unalloyed good.
He’s got right of appeal and public trial with transparent rules on his roadmap which I also think is a good thing. I can see him *almost* getting things right, but I do think working 120 hours a week has made him really nutty.
Agree with Katie on the pricing for Premium Twitter. Her blue check mark should be paid for by simps who subscribe to her. The pricing for business is all wrong, and should be a nominal fee for the business to enroll and then charge per badge beyond a certain amount so you’d get a lot of people with self-importance issues —like writers, sorry— fighting with each other to collect more badges. LIke, look here is my NYT budget, my WaPo badge, my Lighting a Fire without Matches Badge.
On the locking down of Twitter, I believe that he’s trying to avoid people using twitter to scrape tweets for LLM training. Which I think he just needs to throw in the towel on. Twitter isn’t going to be a good LLM training data mine as currently configured, unless he does something like I’ve spergally laid out my substack where he specifically creates the decentralized news editor where he would get a premium fact-checked data set that also has signal in it on how to reason and argue.
I wish he would have just made a good offer to buy Substack and turn the running of Twitter over to that team with maybe some input from him. He needs to extract himself from that company.
Community Notes are indeed great! They make up for a lot of capricious behavior on Musk's part.
And about twitter not being visible, the history in the episode just doesn't seem right to me. I had to switch to third party apps like Nitter way before Musk took over twitter, I think due to a login prompt that kept kicking me to the homepage. I was able to switch back early after his takeover, and it's only been recently that I had to return to Nitter.
Imagine if we had community notes for the entire internet not just twitter. That’s the hill I die on. And not just for bad reputation but good reputation.
I don’t have a twitter account because my wife already says I’m on here too much.
Twitter always prompted you for a login if you did much scrolling around. But you could usually at least read the tweet you were linked to and a few others before you got the prompt. Now, you literally cannot see a TweeX other than the one you are directly linked to, unless you log in.
You can't even just land on a profile page, where a lot of journalists keep their contact information. Prior to Musk, you could even land on an abbreviated explore page.