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Comment by beezlewax | Hacker News Reader

Why are you using twitter for anything at this stage?

It's still the most interesting platform for AI

I just tried to find AI starter packs on BlueSky and confirmed that BlueSky is openly hostile to AI. I understand the reasons, it's just not where I'm at. I'll try Threads and see what happens.

Bluesky has lots of artists, authors, journalists, etc... who see AI as a direct threat to human creativity. Not that the AI will replace the creativity, but that it can generate slop that looks "good enough" and doesn't demand a living wage or healthcare benefits. Many of these creative types have little trust that corporate management won't try to replace them just to save a buck.

I'm sympathetic to their arguments but that doesn't lesson my need to understand AI if I'm going to help them with their concerns. Ignoring it is not an effective strategy.

I can't vouch for these, but they seem like reasonable starting points. I searched for "AI starter pack" with the quotes.

https://bsky.app/starter-pack-short/LFAZcGE

https://bsky.app/starter-pack/maosbot.bsky.social/3l3ix4wi64...

Thank you. I did follow one of those using the same search without the quotes and followed. And your second one now. I'm also cleaning up my X site to get rid of anything not AI so I can do a fair comparison.

It's still the platform where things happen. Even if I'm no longer fundraising there's still a strong, interesting investor community. When founders join an app or companies go to brag about their engineering prowess they still use X. Most people just don't care about Elon enough to leave or not join

I block X and related domains at the router.

what do you recommend instead?

Hackernews, Mastodon, Onlineplatforms of Newspapers or Magazines is what I use

Physical contact with Gramineae

What's so hard about reading scientific papers?

You DO care about the actual, meaningful, quantifiable results, right, not just the vibes and trends and fashions?

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