Sam Liebeskind

Open signups are a business decision. There are many ways that a platform could make it harder to get an account. Lots of real-world privileges have more steps – government IDs like passports or drivers licenses, obviously, but also financial transactions like bank accounts, car loans, or mortgages; or joining high-status organizations like social... See more

Five proven prompt engineering techniques (and a few advanced tactics). A handy cheat sheet to get exactly what you want when working with AI. https://t.co/yncGUJ5g0h

LOL FSB forgot to pay for ChatGPT 4 https://t.co/N2E4oT84kn

There's a fantasy popular among technologists and policymakers that community can be engineered. That if you identify the right variables and apply the right interventions, you can produce community on demand. This fantasy has a name in the urbanist literature: it's called "new town syndrome," after the observation that Britain's postwar new towns,... See more

In this blog, I argue that a solution to this issue is not only possible, but critically important to achieve. I propose that countries should reclaim the power to set the rules and mechanisms for digital spaces where civic discourse occurs, and apply an infrastructure mindset. They should advance social technologies to strengthen people’s... See more