Sam Liebeskind
@samliebeskind
product strategy at New_Public; previously community & growth @ Geneva
Sam Liebeskind
Similarly, some users want to categorize their emails into more fine-grained folders other than the default “Spam” or “Promotions” folders [ 63 , 98 ]. As a result, there have been growing calls to empower end users to customize content curation classi-fiers [ 42 , 43 ]. In particular, researchers have argued for personal content moderation tools... See more
End User Authoring of Personalized Content Classifiers: Comparing Example Labeling, Rule Writing, and LLM Prompting
Social Platform Trust & Safety
from the chat app Quiet (https://tryquiet.org/) - good example of a “threat model” for a communications/social platform
To be stable and effective, both democracy and democratic publics require people to be socially embedded in ongoing relationships rather than temporary mini-publics. Such relationships may be less efficient in the short term, so that some optimal policies remain out of reach, but they are better over time at generating political compromises that... See more
Henry Farrell • AI and Democratic Publics
Instead of telling people what I think of a proposal, a product, a feature, whatever, I ask them instead what they think. Were they thrilled with it? Absolutely love it? Most of the time I would hear, “It's okay,” or “It's not bad.” They would surmise from my facial expression that this wasn't the answer I was looking for. Come back when you are... See more
Frank Slootman • Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
Surprisingly Happy to Have Helped: Underestimating Prosociality Creates a Misplaced Barrier to Asking for Help
Research shows people often underestimate others' willingness to help and the positive feelings helpers experience, leading to reluctance in asking for assistance, which limits opportunities for mutual well-being.
xuan-zhao.comwe/people underestimate how much other people want to help us