Thanks. I do. Won't publish battle plan in exact detail, but will provide background: I'm one of the founders of Tela, and I think very hard about incentive structures. I also have an unusually deep background in history - especially the emergence of new tech and how this produces a turnover of elites.
I believe there is a better way to accomplish the desired outcome of filtering messages for quality.
It is to filter humans for quality.
I was planning to do it myself, but if someone else does it first it really doesn't matter. Because I want to see it created as then I can use it. And it seems like you might appreciate it.
I am not aware of any free communities which perform a quiz/interview to filter the applicants into compatible groups.
For instance, suppose I want to talk to people who:
Don't believe in God
Don't trust the government
Don't believe in flat earth
Don't believe in QAnon
Can perform simple logic
Can solve math problems
Are fluent in English
Can spell long words
Have excellent reading comprehension
Etc.
Then I select these categories and only the people who match these requirements will join the group.
This also has the advantage of working on bots too, since if the AI can successfully do all of this, they won't actually be too bad in conversation.
Naturally, having a long form filling exercise will also filter out people with a short attention span, and think that everything should be condensed into braindead twitter slogans.
Tentatively liking this - I plan to explore it further. The concept appears sound... Do you have a plan to prevent tela being weaponized against us?
Thanks. I do. Won't publish battle plan in exact detail, but will provide background: I'm one of the founders of Tela, and I think very hard about incentive structures. I also have an unusually deep background in history - especially the emergence of new tech and how this produces a turnover of elites.
Oh also, I believe you need to use notes to grow the audience faster.
I've read from others here that their substack didn't take off until they began publishing notes to advertise.
I plan to start doing so once I have a few more posts.
Thanks. I'll give it a go.
I believe there is a better way to accomplish the desired outcome of filtering messages for quality.
It is to filter humans for quality.
I was planning to do it myself, but if someone else does it first it really doesn't matter. Because I want to see it created as then I can use it. And it seems like you might appreciate it.
I am not aware of any free communities which perform a quiz/interview to filter the applicants into compatible groups.
For instance, suppose I want to talk to people who:
Don't believe in God
Don't trust the government
Don't believe in flat earth
Don't believe in QAnon
Can perform simple logic
Can solve math problems
Are fluent in English
Can spell long words
Have excellent reading comprehension
Etc.
Then I select these categories and only the people who match these requirements will join the group.
This also has the advantage of working on bots too, since if the AI can successfully do all of this, they won't actually be too bad in conversation.
Naturally, having a long form filling exercise will also filter out people with a short attention span, and think that everything should be condensed into braindead twitter slogans.
We have very different sets of priors.