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He has distanced himself from the faction known as “e/acc” or “effective accelerationism,” a term used by Beff Jezos, Marc Andreessen, and others as a winking dig at effective altruism. (Altman has tipped his hat to e/acc too, once replying “you cannot out accelerate me” to one of Jezos’s tweets—another sign that he serves at the pleasure of the ph
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Community and commerce will converge
Greg Isenberg • Social media predictions for 2021
Enshiu derided his own taste as too mainstream to be truly great. Yet catering to “the taste of the majority” might be the single goal of…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
When I asked what, exactly, they thought made someone a promising Substack writer, Best turned to McKenzie and asked, in a jokey hush, “Do we keep the Baschez score a secret?” McKenzie laughed. They have a system, created by a former employee named Nathan Baschez, that measures a Twitter user’s engagement level—retweets, likes, replies—among their ... See more