I previously have written back in March 2022 about how I use Twitter, and back in April 2023 about Twitter and its then-new algorithms, which have changed again.
Counterargument: even good faith individuals still on Twitter -- like yourself! -- don't realize they're having their information stream, perspectives, and even their values slowly poisoned by all the Nazi trolls, foreign bots, and chud influencers. It's the old frog in a boiling pot metaphor.
This has been incredibly clear to me as a long time follower of Zvi, watching him slowly start to more and more frequently quote people who are notable gutter racists over the years. It has been sad to see.
There's a species of blind arrogance that is common among Twitter Remainers, perhaps a cousin of Dunning-Kruger, in which intellectuals think they are above ordinary influence. They are pure minds floating in the ether, untouched by anything as vulgar as the company they keep.
You are already known in the AI/alignment/rationalists circle. The idea I have of you is that you pump ideas and informations out for people in this circle. Occasionally a spreader will take some ideas from the circle and diffuse them to a wide audience. Since you are known in the circle, your ideas will be taken. Therefore I think in your case it may be harmful to compromise the way you present your content for more engagement. I think you are already reaching your optimal audience.
If for some reason you crave validation I predict you will gain a much bigger audience as more people realize AI is a big deal, without you having to change your content. No need to slopify
I'm wondering what the metrics of the site are. I appreciate what Zvi does and I don't think this is anything nefarious on Zvi's part, but I have to wonder when I see the level of likes and comments compared to this blog having over 35k subscribers. I'm also not sure there is much of an AI-news audience on youtube either. It makes me think about similar aspects that are YouTube views related and such, whether they're real and potentially artificial. I can see why one could still hope for a bigger audience but yes especially in this space it will make a person look unserious and tacky for slopifying.
An interesting redux of The Everything Site, it's fascinating to look under the hood of antisocial media. Updates go in the same direction as last two times though: man does that look like an unfun experience, I am very glad to have never picked up the habit, and it's more than worth my dollar to pay someone else to distill water from that firehose. (Would still subscribe anyway even if AI could manage the job at a not-high hourly price - "training data" curation is valuable, I have no idea where to start - but it'd be neat to branch into other topics more frequently. Perhaps Pulse will actually get good enough to Monitor the Situations eventually.)
Still want to know more about why Community Notes works well, and its endorsement by Mr. Trillionaire no less, given his...uh...eccentric posting habits. Grok coulda been someone, he coulda been a contender.
I appreciate that you commit 100% to calling it Twitter throughout, with not even a nod to "X", and even give his title as "Twitter Head of Product".
Counterargument: even good faith individuals still on Twitter -- like yourself! -- don't realize they're having their information stream, perspectives, and even their values slowly poisoned by all the Nazi trolls, foreign bots, and chud influencers. It's the old frog in a boiling pot metaphor.
This has been incredibly clear to me as a long time follower of Zvi, watching him slowly start to more and more frequently quote people who are notable gutter racists over the years. It has been sad to see.
There's a species of blind arrogance that is common among Twitter Remainers, perhaps a cousin of Dunning-Kruger, in which intellectuals think they are above ordinary influence. They are pure minds floating in the ether, untouched by anything as vulgar as the company they keep.
I worry that Twitter is manipulating you to think you should be on Twitter. Maybe you should be, but that doesn't seem obvious to me
You are already known in the AI/alignment/rationalists circle. The idea I have of you is that you pump ideas and informations out for people in this circle. Occasionally a spreader will take some ideas from the circle and diffuse them to a wide audience. Since you are known in the circle, your ideas will be taken. Therefore I think in your case it may be harmful to compromise the way you present your content for more engagement. I think you are already reaching your optimal audience.
If for some reason you crave validation I predict you will gain a much bigger audience as more people realize AI is a big deal, without you having to change your content. No need to slopify
I'm wondering what the metrics of the site are. I appreciate what Zvi does and I don't think this is anything nefarious on Zvi's part, but I have to wonder when I see the level of likes and comments compared to this blog having over 35k subscribers. I'm also not sure there is much of an AI-news audience on youtube either. It makes me think about similar aspects that are YouTube views related and such, whether they're real and potentially artificial. I can see why one could still hope for a bigger audience but yes especially in this space it will make a person look unserious and tacky for slopifying.
An interesting redux of The Everything Site, it's fascinating to look under the hood of antisocial media. Updates go in the same direction as last two times though: man does that look like an unfun experience, I am very glad to have never picked up the habit, and it's more than worth my dollar to pay someone else to distill water from that firehose. (Would still subscribe anyway even if AI could manage the job at a not-high hourly price - "training data" curation is valuable, I have no idea where to start - but it'd be neat to branch into other topics more frequently. Perhaps Pulse will actually get good enough to Monitor the Situations eventually.)
Still want to know more about why Community Notes works well, and its endorsement by Mr. Trillionaire no less, given his...uh...eccentric posting habits. Grok coulda been someone, he coulda been a contender.