OmarShehata

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by OmarShehata 2y ago
I think the important point that isn't yet well accepted in our culture is that maturity doesn't happen automatically with age. There are extremely competent, mature, and smart 14 year olds, and there are 29 year olds who haven&#x
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
yes, we're creating websites that are gated by IQ tests. This isn't the way
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
captchas are broken, forever. There is no way to prevent bots without also preventing a bottom tier of human users (visually impaired people, old people, or just impatient people). Like this xkcd [1] comic suggests, we need to just focus on
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Anatomy of an Internet Argument #4 – A Success Story(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
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Can't we just rewrite all clickbait titles with LLMs on the fly?(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
3 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|1 comments
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Why are we putting up with clickbait?(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> more education around basic models and how they work yes, I think this is critical. There's a slate star codex article "Janus Simulators" that explains this very well, that I rewrote to make more accessible to people lik
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
I'd love to see a more NLP look at this data, Google trends style. What topics of discourse come up regularly, what spikes during certain time periods? Can you summarize what economists are discussing? Can you find people talking about
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> can't make a map of all of twitter no, but nothing can stop you & a bunch of people from exporting your tweet archive and visualizing that!
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
this is the event that the article is analyzing: > Marie Gluesenkamp Perez won a congress position, running a campaign that is pro deregulation. This is confusing because deregulation is supposed to be a conservative thing, and conservat
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Blue tribe is starting to win by adopting the best of conservative values(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
4 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|1 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> Monsanto claimed it was “highly unlikely” that glyphosate-resistant weeds would become a problem. There were, of course, those who correctly predicted that such a thing was inevitable I've started noticing that this happens all th
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
the missing context is that the Christian groups he was speaking to typically have low turn out/don't often come out to vote. He's asking them to please come out to vote, it's important this time. It's exactly the s
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Criticizing your own people is how you have maximum impact(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
There's an extremely simple answer to this: humans don't actually change their minds rationally. People arrive at most beliefs emotionally. The reason the people DO NOT change their mind when told that "the scores were fake&q
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Real-time text search for US politics video clips(whatpoliticssay.com)
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Anatomy of an Internet argument 3: start by establishing trust(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
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How to build social technology and cultural infrastructure(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
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Keyword trends on community db of Twitter data(labs-community-archive.streamlit.app)
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Going Viral for a Bird Science Tweet: A Post-Mortem(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
what's the reason it doesn't work??
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Bo-En.info(bo-en.info)
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
You are likely an outlier. Ad targeting is very good at predicting you IF you fall into a cohort that behaves the same as each other. There's only way to find out the answer to this anyway (export our ad targeting data, share it into a
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> The second example is just wishful thinking. I bet even if KJ had responded with the author's way, axial would have still blocked them after several exchanges. Not true! I'm trying to collect "success stories" here
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I was 30 years old when I learned how to think for myself(defenderofthebasic.substack.com)
3 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|2 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
In short it's about helping people who are making genuinely useful products find the audience who genuinely needs them. "If you build it they will come" isn't true. People need to find out & understand when something
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
To be fair, I have the tier with ads. I'm fine seeing ads in the middle of the show. Or even every time I un-pause if they REALLY have to. But covering the pause screen itself is just inexcusable. It breaks functionality. There's
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
TL;DR: having ads in the pause screen is bad UX. I can't pause and read things, or take a picture, or a screenshot, etc. It's bad for the consumer, AND bad for the company. I want to see more criticism of ads from people who belie
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Hulu is A/B testing ads in the pause screen – this is bad for society(omarshehata.substack.com)
4 points by OmarShehata 2y ago|9 comments
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by OmarShehata 2y ago
> Let's admit it, the main purpose of build in public is to attract attention and build a community It's more like open sourcing your code. On one hand: yes, it's good marketing. On the other hand: you're creating pos

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