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Jerome V's avatar

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?

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StJohn Piano's avatar

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.

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Mara's avatar

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.

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StJohn Piano's avatar

Thanks. I'll give it a go.

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Mara's avatar

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.

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StJohn Piano's avatar

We have very different sets of priors.

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