AbstractFairy

• A [[person]]
• [[twitter]] https://twitter.com/AbstractFairy
• A [[friend]].
• [[hypothes.is]]: https://hypothes.is/groups/nxaLPD9r/abstractfairy
• Oh, interesting that they weren’t in the system until June 21st. I’m very inconsistent sometimes.
• Lives in [[Egypt]]. Is economically stable. In late undergrad studies ([[Finance]]).
• Told me about [[Thomas Szasz]]
• [[quote]] "There’s this idea in social media called the [[fluff principle]] ([[Paul Graham]] wrote an [[essay]] on it). The idea is that if you base a social media website on voting, then emotional content and easy to process content will float to the surface"
• [[Recommended]] [[ribbonfarm]] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/series/predictable-identities/
  • Really enjoyed it.
• [[quote]] language levels:
  • I love the idea of having clearly defined language. One clear example of this is the word productivity. I think its a muddled word
  • Lvl 0 Generative: things that actually produce results
  • Lvl 1 Optimization: Refines the process to produce results more efficiently
  • Lvl 2 Experimentation: Finds better tools for Optimization
  • Lvl 3 Rationality: finds better models for analysis
• [[quote]] [[fascism]]: "they enforce their opinion on others"
• Mentioned [[harmonylion1]].