flourish.org
Coercing LLMs into understanding software product teams.
Cohost on "Imagine an apple" podcast about our inner experience.
Trustee of London College of Political Technology (soon).
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Just learned from @flourish.org’s “imagine an apple” podcast that permanent musical soundtracks are part of some people’s inner experience and here is another one!
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Those kinds of practical uses of imagination are easy and fun to talk about, and potentially help people learn ways to improve their lives by improving their minds.
zencastr.com/z/CCEuZGjW
Do get in touch if you use your mind in similar interesting ways!
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Hope you can do something with the podcast, really like it! Would love to hear you guest on the last episode even if it ends!
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Yes, the politics matters a lot too.
But just because previous platforms were owned by one corporation doesn't mean all future platforms have to be as well.
The technology can give options to the politics that it didn't previously have.
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Bluesky has the mechanism to let different people have different moderation algorithms, different blocking criteria, different feeds.
Mastodon has mechanisms for different policies on different servers.
All the corporate (non open protocol) social media - X, Instagram etc - don't.
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HELLO HOW ARE YOU
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Thats the first pre training step, but now there's lots of post training. RLHF and more. And it builds mental models we know a bit about from interpretability.
It's not a human and is flawed. It isn't just stats any more though.
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Some of the Skyfeed ones look interesting - see full list at bsky.app/profile/skyf...
e.g. What's Warm, What's Reposted, Liked By Follows
Wonder also if you can get Claude to code a feed up for you that meets your needs?
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I did what @simonwillison.net did. It feels a bit of a fresh clean break. Also aesthetically I don't like the "bsky.social" everywhere in the UI! And "hello" everyone!
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I feel the same.
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Now I'm thinking about how before mobile phones took off, it was normal to know where your friends live and just knock on their doors when in town. It was nice.
Nearest I've had to this recently is going to the same class or something, and then often having coffee / doing something after.
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There was a cool period about 15 years ago when it was fashionable to have startups that showed where friends are - e.g. xyz has just checked into Foursquare. Even Twitter had a feel of that to start wiht.
Wonder if those could reboot and try in the new age. Maybe with Bluesky as identity system.
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Subscribed. Love the vibe of your videos. They're funny, tonal hacks that cut across and cut through the noise of the 'net. I'm sure you intuit they have more substantive fundamental impact than you realise, but maybe you don't *know* that propositionally.
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Ye /any_austin. $3 w monthly exclusive videos and Q&As. Occasionally other things. Appreciate it!
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That's on the face of it how it works - at least for posts, right?
bsky.app/profile/mode...
I tried turning those settings to "Warn", but still couldn't see hardmaru's profile. Not sure what "flagged" / "content blocked" comes under - presumably a rule they don't let you disable on their server.
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I did wonder why that migration failed, but missed the "tagged as Nazis" - for what kind of reason? At least in the bits of TPOT I was in, I felt like nobody tried migrating seriously.
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Right, X has effectively banned links by killing their reach (too much freedom of speech in a link), so any community that cares about referencing anything not on X needs to leave it for reach
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Not sure where you should post the blog! There's a plus of having it on your own site, as you control it forever. Unless you want the separation from academic presence, but then you need a different name anyway.
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As an aside, on Bluesky you're free to put links in your posts, don't need to spell out the domain like you're forced to on X...
Unless there's another reason you haven't linked?
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Trains disrupted by recent bad weather?
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Wait, in my imagination *all* you do is go to live coding meetups?
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If I had to guess, *some* internal thinkers will be good at having internal conversations in multiple imagined sound voices. My sense is that most people don't do that.
But I don't think the distinction is just about modalities and inner experience - it'll be social too, I assume?
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I am? I haven't realised this distinction before I don't think! Seems really useful, Ian.
Wondering if there's a link to the inner mental experience stuff I investigate...
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Do you mean long conversations where small differences in wording then get exageratted over time, and eventually the meaning changes too?
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About every 5 or 7 years I'd unfollow everyone on Twitter and start again anyway... I think it's a chance to follow what you need now!
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Sure, but to help make sure I've unfollowed you on X! 😉
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In the UK "blue" means right-wing. So guess you're right 😉
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Posts have more diverse reach on Bluesky - I'm seeing more stuff than on Twitter. It's getting me out of my filter bubble.
The algorithms on Twitter have been messed around with. Bluesky has competitive choice of feed, and has only just got going.
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Sure - but how often do you get semantically different answers?
My mental model from playing with this a couple of years ago, is that the last layer weights mostly determine *how* something is said, not what is said. That is decided earlier.
Would love to see reserach on this!
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It's difficult without a list of sites that went to the meeting... I trust Danny O'Sullivan from the 1990s, and I'm confused that he'd invite over such a bad site to the office, and not even be clear to them why the form of content they were using wasn't useful to users any more?