paulbourcereau

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by paulbourcereau 2y ago
I am not talking about making it not engaging, I am talking about making a business model that doesn't rely on maximizing engagement. It would likely be even harder to start as it certainly wouldn't go viral. But eventually people
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Ask HN: What do you think about a subscription based social media?
1 points by paulbourcereau 2y ago|7 comments
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Show HN: Increase Your Attention Span(chrome.google.com)
2 points by paulbourcereau 3y ago|2 comments
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by paulbourcereau 3y ago
Our attention span may be diminishing due to short-form content, from two and a half minutes in 2004 to only 47 seconds in 2023. This concerning information is likely linked to Reels and Shorts and all sorts of short videos or posts we come
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by paulbourcereau 3y ago
There aren't only two options though. It can be self-moderated by the community. A user who posts insightful nuances will have a bigger say in what is considered insightful in the future. Sort of like a PageRank for reliability.
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by paulbourcereau 3y ago
It's a simple tool to enrich an article with nuances. You see an article that seems misleading or incomplete ? You just paste the url in the input box and add the nuances (bits of information) that will help understand the article bett
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by paulbourcereau 3y ago
The algorithm that puts content forward will be different from typical recommendation systems. You won't see nuances because they please your brain but because they have been recognized as factual and contributing to the understanding
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by paulbourcereau 3y ago
If you encounter some misleading article you can simply paste the url in the input box on the homepage, it will then open a page where you can add nuances to this article for other people to see. Thank you for the feedback, I am working on
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Show HN: Can we de-polarize the world?(nuancer.vercel.app)
5 points by paulbourcereau 3y ago|10 comments
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by paulbourcereau 3y ago
A few months ago a young student in my former high school sadly passed away. He badly hurt himself fainting following a vaccination. I learned about it on some online article, and was immediately struck by the comments on the page. It was j
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by paulbourcereau 3y ago
I guess by ineffective he meant for the "greater good". This raises a new question. It seems like it has been established by Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc that : Maximizing shareholder value => maximizing time spent on the a
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by paulbourcereau 3y ago
This makes a lot of sense. And do you think someone/something is responsible for this ? Or is it just the way our society is evolving ?
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Is massive and extreme polarization the biggest issue about our society?
3 points by paulbourcereau 3y ago|6 comments