Brent Schulkin

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Thank you! Others have also advised me to bring something yellow for the yellow party 🫡 🐉

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Thanks! Will be my first regional, very excited for it

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Anyone else going to Love Burn next week?

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Oh, I think I'm actually thinking of Castillo San Felipe de Barajas... have a safe flight!

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I think I’ve been to this fort! Is it the one where right down the hill is another building that was for people with leprosy?

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I know it’s only January, but I’ve seen enough. This is the best album name of the year.

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Site is down, but I wanna check it out! schulkin.base.eth

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Thank you, my new shoe company is raising at $100M pre

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I guess we once snagged someone from Radish too so it’s all good… cross pollination is good for the ecosystem 🙂

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I co-sign this newsletter recommendation! Even though I’m slightly miffed that the Radish folks have recruited away one of my friends who is moving from my coliving community to theirs a week from now 🥲💞

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Congrats, sounds like a worthwhile endeavor!

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Thank you! And I love your metaphor, very clever!

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We just got clemency for Peltier! I'm still waiting for justice for Mumia...

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Check out Brent’s TED talk on bridging from negation game mechanisms (skeleton) to user interface (organs)

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I challenge you to not smile as you imagine all the major airlines sending their planes to meet up together in the sky to fly to their destination together in a flying V formation. Cutest climate solution since sea otters in kelp forests. https://trellis.net/article/delta-air-lines-fuel-saving-geese-flight-formation/

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So, getting back to the main question at hand, I do like the idea of giving users the ability to support beliefs, AND also adding a way to downvote them that is separate from a real negation. These new features would be totally meaningless from the perspective of defining the "skeleton" or finding truth. Their only purpose would be to create a fun/easy initial UX and let people quickly and easily build a graph of what they believe in, which creates a cool and shareable user profile that drives user growth. If you decide to embrace this dichotomy between the skin and bones, then I think you'll be able to make it understood that the action of upvoting or downvoting a belief is always "fluffy". There can be design affordances for making this clear, like maybe when you're interacting with a "silver" belief, the "Negate" button is silver but the 👍👎 buttons are still white. Thank you for coming to my TED talk. (12/12)

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Such connections might be thought of as tentative "rough drafts". At any moment, the AI (or a user) could think of a better way to map connections to other beliefs, and there's some lightweight way to just edit the connections without any money being involved. And when people are engaging with the white boxes, the AI can automatically try to bridge people over to the silver boxes by suggesting that they bet on a silver box that seems related. That's how they might onboard users into the skeleton of logical arguments. This could also be where users are bridged from offchain to onchain (although maybe you just use account abstraction to give all users a wallet when they sign up anyway). (11/12)

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The skeleton (of silver and gold beliefs) is organized by the betting behavior itself. The negations and staking create the structure of the arguments and there is no room for AI to be messing around and influencing anything. But the outer layer (white beliefs) do not have any betting associated with them. They are too fluffy for that. White boxes include stuff like "2025 is going to be lit" or "Rico has a crush on Maria". So this is where the AI is connecting the beliefs to one another and handling most of the sensemaking. (10/12)

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