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The Open Question Jun 24: What makes humans unique & valuable?
Hey y'all! This week Oracle said in its official SEC filing it replaced 21,000 jobs with AI. And last month Pope Leo XIV delivered his first encyclical arguing that the real danger of is that we start treating people, including ourselves, as products to be optimized and... The VP Debate
Hey y’all, What we’re up to tonight Tonight we’re going to have fun, test how UpTrust works with 20-30 people simultaneously using it, and perhaps gain some insight and make some connections.... - annabeth...
UpTrust is both destroying my interest in other social media platforms and improving the way I interact with them. It became blatant to me this week when I realized my screen time limits had long since stopped popping up for social media.... Trump is going to be President (again)
The assassination attempt is definitely helping propel Trump to the presidency (aka the belief that "God is ordaining Trump to be president, thus saved him from harm"), though Elon Musk’s immediate endorsement after the assassination attempt (and $45 mil per month committed... - annabeth...
Like is different than trust
I think Jordan said at an uptrust session that he misses the like button. I’m having the same feeling lately, there are posts I like that I wouldn’t necessarily say I trust. Or I want to give it some sort of "that was cool" but I don’t want that statement in my trust algorithm.... How does "Anderson v TikTok/ByteDance" relate to UpTrust?
(continued from the Uptrust slack) Links: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/judges-rule-big-techs-free-ride-on Hacker News discussion This stuff was hard for me to make sense of. I think writing about it here has helped.... Some integral philosophy/analysis behind TreeView
Forums like Reddit and Facebook are essentially "Orange" interaction paradigms—there's a static "original post" and a fixed hierarchy. Some benefits of this are that you get some sense of coherence to a conversation, and if you're ten layers deep in replies, you can quickly... - annabeth...
What will the future literally look like?
This idea comes from watching Mad Men- seeing smoking and drinking freely at the office for example, and my brother once pointing out that if a show or movie ever wanted to make it really clear that it was set in the 1990’s, all they’d have to do is have multiple people driving... - renee...
Would you still scroll if you knew your stats?
I read that the average person checks their phone 150 times a day!! Wild right? It would be cool if social platforms gave stats like, you have logged in 8 times today or you have spent 55 minutes total here today, or 5 hours this week.... - Arun...
A future I love is more village than city.
Perhaps there's a sci-fi version here where humans become much much better at cities, but the version I like at the moment is Village 2.0. I want to keep networked, light-speed global communication, so knowledge can continue to evolve, enrich, and compound.... What the Pope said on AI, and where it leaves us
Last month Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's about artificial intelligence, and what it might be doing to our sense of being human.... Open Question July 22: What's worth fighting to keep, and what should we let go?
Hey y'all, Wars, trillionaires, and AI everything... we're all wrestling with wild change, making decisions to try to hold on, let go, or something else. So this week: What's worth fighting to keep, and what should we let go? Privacy. Reading. Offices. Cash.... This seems like a good answer, but we won't be able to stop the bad forces that control our systems if this is all we do. We will end up like the American Indians against the technology of the settlers.... - annabeth...
Can we handle the truth?
If UpTrust works the way it’s intended, it will make truth more accessible. But what percentage of the population currently has the capacity to face truth? Perhaps alongside truth, the tech will make the skills for being with the truth more accessible too.... How we collude with social media to hide our identity-choices
Why we let algorithms define us, and how to catch the choice before it happens Collapsing our self-identity around our reactions On social media I start to define myself by what I do with my attention.... - joshua...
How do we get to a future with a more tech literate society?
There are so many things that are coming down the pipeline that both sacrifice people’s technological freedoms and violate their privacy: Google has recently decided to start determining who’s allowed to create apps that can be installed on Android.... What cool new technologies are you seeing emerge? How do we know we can trust them?
Curious about all, but I'd especially love to see non-AI versions, like: New batteries for solar: storing heat in big piles of dirt A while back Tommy mentioned cowfart backpacks Maybe it's something old for you, but we're not in your field so we don't know about it yet Even... Productivity Systems vs Meaningful Aligned Work
This might be a false dichotomy. But, every few months, I come across some new productivity idea and get mini obsessed by it. GTD. Anki cards. AI Assistants. As far as I can tell, I don't have a cohesive system for work or anything. I keep all my tasks in a txt file.... Transcript from Layman Pascal AMA: Your Neighbor Is Selling T-Shirts About Your Revolution Tomorrow
A live recorded conversation on UpTrust between Jordan Myska Allen and Layman Pascal, the opening session of UpTrust’s launch day. Watch the recording or see the original AMA post, where the live questions came from....