Ryan Bennett

If you think this joke is funny, then you understand the difference between necessary and sufficient conditions. Co-Founder @LetterWiki, SamizdApp.

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If you want to understand the IDW, think in terms of the IDW Protocol. (Thread)

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@NutriDetect have you written anything about potassium sparing diuretics/blood-pressure meds?

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@UnmistakableCEO @OpenAI https://t.co/lzv6iamoFi

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@ianpaul @OpenAI yep https://t.co/lzv6iamoFi

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@musestoomuch Eh, for me it was never about sam, or any of them. There was a beautiful few months after sam’s podcast came out and bari’s article where the concept was just legible enough to be valuable and hadn’t been neutered on arrival. I’m not bitter about it i promise lol.

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@musestoomuch Those were the days.

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@musestoomuch Bic lighters and spare change have strong opinions on this subject apparently, though admittedly poor self expression.

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@musestoomuch Pocket tweet, my bad

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@JoshuaCarter603 @jack Just in time for burning man

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@potetm @thdxr Define and distinguish key terms.
Steelman opposing positions
Agree upon disagreement (both parties agree on a description of how their positions are in conflict)
Set the goalposts (each party declares what it would take to change their mind)

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@potetm @thdxr I actually worked out a “handshake” that does the above as well as a few other things, and you’re right, most debates never get through it, which on balance I think has saved me a ton of time otherwise wasted.

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@zooko Everytime i notice that i got auto-switched to “for you” instead of “following”, before i switch back, I block the account that caused me to notice.

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

It is your duty as a good citizen to block/mute/ignore accounts that harm your attention, thoughts, and emotions, and those of your community. Blocking is healthy. Blocking is virtuous. Everyone should do it.

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DNS is the final boss of the decentralized internet. NAT and TLS are the mini-bosses that drain you to 5hp just beforehand.

[Daniel Ƀrrr @csuwildcat]

Having decentralized identifiers to replace centralized, corpo-government DNS/account systems is certainly as important as money. If you 'fix the money', but lose on identity, the risk of dystopia remains high, b/c money and identity are the primary authoritarian control points.

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@tautologer Nice save, you may continue to seltzer poast.

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@tautologer Worst take in the history of this site, under both names.

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First principles reasoning is not immune from motivation.

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@MikePFrank @SteveStuWill Makes me wonder how much of the dress kerfuffle from years ago was between light mode / dark mode users.

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@KelseyTuoc Crazy! Thanks for confirming

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@KelseyTuoc Did you use a temporary chat so that memory would be disabled?

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Unmoderated conversations at scale are steered by the fastest respondents. Since it takes time to thoughtfully consider what you read, and time to thoughtfully construct a response, that means that unmoderated conversations at scale are steered by people who either didn’t really read what they’re responding to, or didn’t really think about what they’re writing, or both.