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Founder of knophy.com
Goals: -No ads -No paywalls -Reward competency -User configurable filters that default to filtering those with lack of demonstrated competency -pay it forward content promotion mechanism -more sane content discovery
>This was a tough one to figure out! Beeper has two ways of enabling Android, Windows and Linux users to use iMessage: we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage, or if they have a Mac that is always connected to the internet, they can install the Beeper Mac app which acts as a bridge.
Can you elaborate? Surely this is satire or I'm missing something super obvious.
>But while logging helps with investigations, only alarms or constant reviews can turn logs into something that can prevent breaches.
I'm still confused though after reading the article.
That said - I'd highly recommend checking out the Navigation components that are a part of Jetpack. They make standard navigation patterns, including deep linking, a complete breeze.
Silly puns aside though, I definitely agree with your viewpoint.
I just can't help but think that this is an incredibly naive model of how corporations function.
I'm not saying I disagree with the premise but I do think it would be incredibly helpful to the people pushing for this to give off a greater sense of how multi billion dollar corporations function. It just really can't be that simple.
However, I'd like to point out something that doesn't sit well with me.
Spotify uses this same kind of extraction mechanism on the artists that use its platform.
The complaint loop is complete. We have artists complaining about artist 'hosting' companies complaining about application hosting companies.
I believe the solution lies in different, non-zero sum economics, but haven't been able to think of anything for music. I do, however, have some pretty cool ideas for longer form text and video content.
>But what is most strikingly original about Wittgenstein’s account in the Tractatus is his drawing out of the implications – which are to a degree disturbing – of this conception. One implication is for values. If I think or claim that the car is in the garage, then, built into that claim is the idea that this may be true or false. But when I think that, say, slavery is morally wrong, I think something that could not be otherwise than true (even if others should disagree
I believe the solution to this lies in collective subjectivism with a fancy twist. Underlying every disagreement about such a claim, we have an implicit agreement. If I say slavery is wrong and you say you disagree, then we actually agree about something; the fact that we disagree.
That agreement underlying the disagreement gives rise to new conversational opportunity to approach a new, more fundamental point of agreement.
In this example, we could ask something like the following to our debate partner: “would you like to be owned by me?” Employing Kant’s categorical imperative (or the golden rule or bowever else this idea has been named) to demonstrate to your opponent indeed no, they would not like to be enslaved.
Following that train of logic, we can begin to piece together agreements from the disagreements that we unavoidably come across when using a tool as blunt as language to describe anything close to resembling reality.
At some point, given the good faith participation of both partners in conversation, we will be able to form more agreements, phoenixes rising from the ashes of our disagreements, that will lead to something more closely resembling a “universal truth”, truism, true objective fact, etc.
After all, true is just the word we have for something that cannot be proven false. In the same way that we just pretend money has value and so it does, true doesn’t mean anything beyond the word itself. That doesn’t necessarily make it less useful, it’s just something we need to keep in mind.
On that note, this author does a fascinating job introducing a hypothesis that an alphabet causes a society to lean to value masculine thought processes more highly. Not sure what I think about the hypothesis yet but it’s been a fascinating listen thus far.
This, combined with our ironically deteriorating ability to communicate in a digital age is leading down not such a bright road.
On an article on Wittgenstein's honest and fluid thinking style, I posted something similar to what the current top comment has described as the most interesting part of W's process.
Thanks in advance.
It's also interesting to think about exactly where these thoughts come from. Where did the thought come from for example that invoked you opening up hacker news at the time you wrote this?
Where does great intuition come from? It's all fascinating whether you prescribe to a theory that likens consciousness to that of thinking rocks or if you're incredibly spiritual and think of consciousness more as a radio signal that were tuned into at some arbitrary frequency when we're alive in Earth.
If you're interested in being a visitor in ones mind, could I humbly request you check out my comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18814685
Here's a recording of the comment as kind of a proof of why I think this is interesting to do. Very Meta. Watch Community of you enjoy this kind of thing:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/sx7K8O7IGxo
Part 2: https://youtu.be/wZGvJBXOkGs
I also do live thought explorations, record them, and put them on YouTube. Please come tell me why you disagree with some of my most honest thoughts.
are a couple of videos I could find off the bat. For anyone interested in just reading rather than watching the entire thought process, I've posted links in the descriptions to the final text produced. I'll also link my Medium page below.
I record the entire thought process because I think we are in dire need of honesty today. It's too easy to pretend we know more than we do. I have lots of theories I'd like to share and talk with people about and have an incredibly hard time finding any kind of audience, yet constantly find people taking about our suffering from problems I believe I can solve.
I know this comment is all over the place, but just like the current top comment describes, I find it fascinating looking inside people's thought process as it is the most raw thing we can do with language. I also believe as I hammer away on these keys that I could just keep typing and eventually bring it all back together, which I will now.
I believe developing trust amongst individuals is vital in a digital age if we are to maintain any degree of community as society. Wittgenstein style thought explorations (and now with new technology recording the process therein) are the most raw, unidealogically possessed form of thought we can share. Any level of rehearsal or editing, while they certainly improve the finished product, both waste time and present an opportunity for those idealogical possessions to creep back into play.
In previous human times, we had much less diverse information flux. This enabled us to more easily understand our environment and those around us. We saw the same people every day, knew our place, and knew what to expect more or less.
Today, we don't know anyone we talk to online. Pair that with the difficulty of forming a strong community and that leads to some pretty serious problems.
I mean ABSOLUTELY no disrespect to anyone with what I'm about to say: suicide rates in youths, as well as what appears to be an identity crisis where people are latching on to whatever made up concepts please them are caused by a theory I call "Information Radiation."
"Information Radiation" effects a culture of people much like nuclear radiation effects a single individual. It makes them sick and die. Our culture is dying. There's so much new information coming in (most of it being of little importance) that it is crowding out the old information we have stores about the value of our cultures precious stories. The ones that got us here.
Those stories aren't true, but hey, we're here! And very few intellectuals respect that. We are arrogant to think now that these stories of religious proportioms are just simply not a representation of physical events that happened in our space time that they aren't important or helpful.
If this was true, television and movies such as Game of Thromes, Harry Potter, and the Avengers simply would not be popular.
This is not a religious claim at all by the way. There's no man in the sky dictating things. There are in my opinion human spiritual happenings, but those are unimportant to include here to pursuade you of my opinions.
Lastly, I want to plug my website knophy.com that I'm working on.
TLDR on it is that it's a website that values competency and the comprehension of content. My utlimate goal is to pay both creators for creating content and consumers for forming comprehension about content. I believe I have invented a sound business model for doing that.
Details are below
https://link.medium.com/Hnu2JLZ0aT https://link.medium.com/nCVtpC00aT
Thanks for reading.
Honest yours, Michael Lustig.
Email me at lustig@knophy.com if you’re interested in chatting. The idea has tremendous potential and I’m nearing completion of a prototype.
Thanks in advance, Michael
Hey Ivan, just saw your repl video on the other page. Cool work! I'm working on technology that will revolutionize many industries. It's called knophy.com and I am actively working on it myself. The core philosophy of knophy is that we can realign incentive structures in social media and online interaction to favor the competent rather than the loud. The website doesn't show much yet, but I'll have a prototype available soon and always love sharing and discussing the idea with others.
My email is in my profile. Let’s link up if you want to talk more about it. I don’t have any funding yet but am very confident that funding will come and I have a very sane business model that I think can again, help revolutionize many industries in our zero sum times.
Sounds like a shill and I don’t really care. I’m a premium member with 6,000 minutes of transcript time per month (and sometimes I’ve used almost all of it) and I couldn’t be happier.
You can export everything, support and head of product are kind and responsive, and you can click in the transcription anywhere and it will play the audio at that point.
Exactly what I need.
My main complain is that it’s geared towards corporate environments for conferences, meetings, etc, and so the grouping isn’t exactly what I like, but I was my text editor to keep the links more to my liking.
Being able to search by word hundreds of hours of my thoughts is a fantastically empowering experience and I hope you find the same.
Let me know what you think! Shoot me an email if you want to chat about it ever. If you can't tell I'm a pretty big fan.
Some seem not to gel with the wording you’ve used for your website, but you’ve put lots of work in and your passion and honesty show through the feedback and responses you’re providing.
Bravo.
I’m sick of these rent seeking fee grabbing antiquated ideas prevailing just because “that’s how it’s always been done”
I truly respect your efforts and wouldn’t comment here if I didn’t think I had a way to improve that process for you. Please email me if you’re interested in hearing more. Email is username at gmail.
Looking forward to hopefully hearing from you.
Reason I ask is because I’m creating a website where users can be paid for demonstrating competency in content while also serving as a more sane and organized organizational structure for content.
Email is username at gmail if you’d like to chat.
The prototype is being put together live at knophy.com and while it may not appear obvious from the site’s current status, I would love to talk with you about how your archival efforts would be greatly appreciated with us.
Please reach out at my username at gmail if you’re interested.
In other words, the utility of the work.
Running four laps on a quarter mile track gets you nowhere (same as digging a hole) but it’s obvious to see one experiences physical gain from performing such an activity.
Knophy.com is going to change the way we think about monetizing content. I haven’t posted on SHOWHN yet as I’m not quite finished with the prototype, but check it out and please email me at my username at gmail.
Our thoughts (from what I can tel in this article) and goals greatly overlap and I’d love to work with you both as a creator and to get your feedback on how the site works for you.
It’s absolutely time we give the power back to the individual, and that is the core philosophy of Knophy.
Oh, and also-all of this necessarily NEEDS to be open source and as decentralized as possible. So few can’t possibly be looking out for the betterment of the many.
Not attempting to be snide, this sentiment echoes exactly what GraphQL solves.
To humor you, I clicked the bloated web expecting to see how large the web had grown with unimportant projects and whatnot.
After clicking through to disable adblock, I thought to myself, "What the FUCK is this guy on about!?" and then realized the point of the website.
Sincerely, almostWhooshGuy