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Twitch users consumed 592bn minutes (!) of live-stream content last year, and Twitch has recently pushed into non-gaming categories like music and sports.

Figuring out a scheme that doesn’t look like gatekeeping (a lot of people who sounded the alarm early for COVID were non-experts) but would elevate legitimate work would need to be created. Maybe Klout, for the healthcare industry, where networks of peers actually stake their reputation on others to raise both of their reputations combined with dat... See more

The end result is a world where the ability for anyone to post any idea has, paradoxically, meant far greater mass adoption of popular ideas and far more effective suppression of “bad” ideas. That is invigorating when one feels the dominant idea is righteous; it seems reasonable to worry about the potential of said sense of righteousness overwhelmi... See more

What are some of those fundamental assumptions that would need to be reimagined or extended to accommodate artificial intelligence?

Here are three. First, death: Humans tend to be either dead or alive. Borderline cases exist but are relatively rare. But digital minds could easily be paused, and later restarted.

Second, individuality. While even ide

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The resulting translations were far from great. It wasn’t because our translators weren’t skilled or trying hard enough: They had no context on the bits of text they were translating. They also had no idea how the text would appear in the final product, where it was used, or how it connected to our software’s user interface. Because spreadsheets we... See more

Devotees say 'gym is church' and that customers will come flocking back, but analysts aren't so sure.

A new product strategy is a second chance that you should use wisely. This means that you cannot do without the help of high-quality marketers.

Contributor ownership: As contributors add value, how can we give them greater ownership and governance power? This is especially important for new contributors, as we want to avoid entrenching power among only early contributors.