Sublime

After 25 years of solitude, the most influential tech billionaire you've never heard of broke his silence to talk to @JeremySternLA about what he calls “the single best product I’ve ever built, in four decades, by far.” Colossus can report for the first time that Trilogy founder Joe Liemandt is the product guy behind... See more

What’s amazing is that the difficulty of creating this situation of “fully democratized information” is entirely economic rather than technological. What I describe with books is close to what Google Books and Amazon already have. But of course, universal free access to full content horrifies publishers, so we are prohibited from using these... See more

In traditional journalism, there are strong incentives to act maliciously. Journalists are incentivized to optimize for views and clicks. The answer is not to reform the industry. We can change media through radical decentralization. Everyone becomes a journalist. Each person writes about their local issues or areas of expertise

Terence Tao: "This is not a routine policy shift - it is a deliberate dismantling of the institutions, funding, and freedoms that have sustained American science for generations." https://t.co/id1iVyC26u

 I can imagine all sorts of fun experiments people could do here. For example, could you create an algorithm that downranks tweets that seem like shallow outrage, while promoting tweets that seem nuanced and thoughtful? What would an algorithm look like that is maximally aggressive in filtering out spam and bots? How about one that attempts to... See more