Posts by edk@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #APFruKpZ57iYhwjDd2 by edk@mastodon.social
2022-10-30T20:16:24Z
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@deshipu Totally and well said. If there are conversations out there about what else we could be counting, I'd like to know where they are.There are so many even basic possibilities -- likes, boosts, ratios, all of them organized by hashtag or topic.We have the ability to do much more nuanced analysis not just with algorithms but the basic UX and feedback, which is socially crucial.
(DIR) Post #APFruLeG2eGdFARhdw by edk@mastodon.social
2022-10-30T21:51:27Z
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@deshipu I think I agree, but I’m not sure what it means to “leave it to the humans” when it comes to online software? There will always be an interface and that interface will provoke certain behaviors, elevate some things over others.I agree I think with not overworking it, but every decision in the interface is some kind of manipulation.
(DIR) Post #APFruMF7pZl35Vh96m by edk@mastodon.social
2022-10-31T00:36:00Z
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@xjix @deshipu I think you’re right, but to be fair - building in that kind of customizability is a hefty lift. I do think that the return to maker technology will characterize true web3 if we get it right. But it’s hard. Not all of us can write in forth, my friend. ;)
(DIR) Post #APJU8FPjJHjFOmP6Ui by edk@mastodon.social
2022-11-05T20:16:48Z
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Not gonna lie though, kind of wish there was an entire #mastodon server that was just #brandtwitter accounts talking to each other
(DIR) Post #APJnMFGqXP5Q8adY5w by edk@mastodon.social
2022-11-06T06:17:50Z
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@madargon not at all! Yeah it’s a pretty weird phenomenon. Here’s a bit of it: https://wealthofgeeks.com/the-snarkiest-brand-accounts-on-twitter/Basically there are tons of accounts on Twitter for various product or corporate brands and sometimes they employ very funny people leading to a weird form of internet performance art that I appreciate.Something amusing about making them all live on the same server… & the idea of Wendy’s also needing a bird site escape hatch…
(DIR) Post #APfUBgj20h2zj1zSS0 by edk@mastodon.social
2022-11-16T09:37:09Z
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@shengokai @Gargron I’m all for exploring design iterations here… Forgive my ignorance, someone must have suggested this already - but isn’t QT a matter of consent? What if the OP had the ability to delete QTs? A technical challenge surely but this would flip the power dynamic (as would above vs below as suggested in thread).The ability to curate one’s QTs could go a long way. It still can be overwhelmed in which case turning QTs off for a post would be needed too.
(DIR) Post #APfUBhbGl2QsRFMlzU by edk@mastodon.social
2022-11-16T09:46:43Z
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@edendestroyer @shengokai @Gargron I definitely understand the perspective and have found the deliberate omission very interesting. I absolutely think it’s one of those “do it right or not at all”. I would love to see the power of the #fediverse used for robust #design experimentation. Show your work etc.Fwiw the design approach to this would be to first robustly and thoroughly describe the problem (w/evidence) and then begin ideating very widely, then curate into experiments.
(DIR) Post #APfUBj0pVUTMooKhTE by edk@mastodon.social
2022-11-16T10:46:49Z
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@johanbove @edendestroyer Right, I remember reading that (thank you for adding to the thread) and appreciating the thinking. I do think there’s more to build out - I’ll take a crack at it if I have time!Dunking is absolutely the core of the problem and it is a community-wide poison imo - though that ability to flip the power dynamic of posting can be used for good. Also entanglement with the scale QTs reach (like if you hid them would that change things). Lots to think about.
(DIR) Post #APfUBjs0Jn0VTjDALw by edk@mastodon.social
2022-11-16T16:14:08Z
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@johanbove @edendestroyer Thank you, I wondered if there had been issues filed about it! I have at least one github account... 😂 Though I do think it would be interesting to take all of the related comments and stitch them together into a doc, with a description of the problem, and some ideation... the github format is not really conducive to design, & "issues" seems kinda counterproductive framing.eh @scottjenson?
(DIR) Post #APfUBkZxgMAXg3mGrw by edk@mastodon.social
2022-11-16T16:53:45Z
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@scottjenson @johanbove @edendestroyer Totally agree that this belongs in the case study, but I suspect it might be performing as designed. Mastodon is full of informal cultural cowpaths & this seems to be a values-based decision. But that doesn’t mean study can’t be helpful. I’m curious in a broad sense how we can facilitate #OpenSourceUX - what are the tools, communities, processes we need. What would it even look like in success? 🤔
(DIR) Post #APfUBlZI0LE2kGTFSa by edk@mastodon.social
2022-11-16T17:16:31Z
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@scottjenson @johanbove @edendestroyer Trying to address what it means to be viral, yes! I think that's exactly right and why it's a super hard and intriguing problem. How do you have consent and virality? How do you continuously renew consent, which can change WITH virality?I agree that dumping out all the legos is the right stage for now.
(DIR) Post #AQTTyJChpX33q1JfXc by edk@mastodon.social
2022-12-10T19:30:51Z
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*whispers into the void*The concept of general intelligence was always a bad idea 👎🏼⚡️The concept of measuring computers by their ability to trick humans was always a bad idea 👎🏼⚡️🤫😶🤐🙈
(DIR) Post #AQrAD1KTEeFhSFiwuu by edk@mastodon.social
2022-12-10T18:36:21Z
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I think — unfortunately? — we’re going to keep having this same conversation for years.1. Yes the large language models are impressive.2. Yes there will be some clever uses of them.3. No, the biggest uses aren’t obvious now and won’t be for some time. These big uses are likely to be largely invisible. Things will just work better.4. Yes there are a LOT of problems with them at present.5. No, it’s not clear they’re a killer tech.6. The biggest problem is how good they are at fooling people.
(DIR) Post #AQrAD3ieLimWrp3Hsm by edk@mastodon.social
2022-12-10T18:41:49Z
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There is something almost tautological happening with the large language models & specifically the hysteria (positive & negative) they induce…The problem is that we as humans have been fooled by fluency for all of human history. LLMs are the equivalent of Prof. Harold Hill (without the char development). If they were human they’d be sociopath scammers. The human brain is sort of innately vulnerable to fluency, or there wouldn’t be entire genres of scammers. And now we have fluent machines.
(DIR) Post #AQrAD67BRTawIUXuOu by edk@mastodon.social
2022-12-10T21:05:01Z
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And look - what does a scammer want?1. They want to get your attention and keep it for as long as possible.2. They want you to do what they tell you to do, quickly, impulsively.3. They want for you to not stop and question whether what they’re saying is RIGHT.4. They want to make it as hard as possible for you to fact check them. 5. They want to maximize emotional empathy to drown out rational thinking.We need to be thinking about this playbook when we interact with text-generating agents.
(DIR) Post #ARB07AMzb4z9jl64TA by edk@mastodon.social
2022-12-31T20:07:01Z
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Is there an adjective that means "absence of systems thinking"? As in, "the approach to solving this problem was ___"?We have metaphors that surround this ("missing the forest for the trees"), but in a world where systems thinking exists, at a certain point there's culpability in not looking at a problem from a systemic perspective, yeah? A "we/they should have known better" about unintended consequences.
(DIR) Post #ARB07ApLtdfd9iMifo by edk@mastodon.social
2022-12-31T20:08:54Z
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Is "linear" the opposite of "systemic"? It seems like maybe the closest I've got...
(DIR) Post #ARB09BBHYItIpdZz4S by edk@mastodon.social
2022-12-31T20:12:57Z
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@pry Oh, I like one-dimensional. Thanks!
(DIR) Post #AmJNMYCcbRILkUn5fc by edk@mastodon.social
2024-09-23T19:02:21Z
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Here's a way to turn anti-AI rage into action:Normalize crediting.I can't tell you how many times an invite, email, blog post, random bit of social media content goes out with some kind of unattributed lovely art.CREDIT ARTISTS. ON EVERYTHING. It's easy. And if we normalized crediting enough, the generated images would stand out on their own for absence of credit.#AI #art #GenAI #artists
(DIR) Post #ArchM4eX7YUUZDsY0u by edk@mastodon.social
2025-03-01T21:28:44Z
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@stux @rbreich was just checking out Ghost! Looks amazing.