Many important-but-unfinished ideas don’t fit in short statements. But I think this is an interesting idea. Not obvious there’s no version of this that works well. Currently, I’m not highly impressed.
The usual thought, I guess. We could build forums that’re sufficiently flexible that they could have features like this added to them without any involvement from hosts (in this case I’d implement it as a Proposal/mass commitment to read ‘post of the day’s, and the introduction of a ‘post of the day’ tag. I don’t think this even requires radical extensibility, just the tasteweb model), and we should build those instead of building more single purpose systems that are even less flexible than the few-purpose systems we already had.
No one wants to read and proceess others thoughts, even if they are great, if they are unpolished. There’s just too much out there. That being said, dumping your own thoughts unpolished into a document is great, and there’s rarely a reason not to do so publically as scooping is in practice incredibly rare, and usually done by convergent evolution not espionage. (e.g., the minimum viable code for my latest accepted cvpr submission was on github as well as up on my blog labelled “CVPR Equivariance” for over a year before I got it polished enough to actually submit, no one came anywhere close to scooping.
Many important-but-unfinished ideas don’t fit in short statements. But I think this is an interesting idea. Not obvious there’s no version of this that works well. Currently, I’m not highly impressed.
@mako input?
The usual thought, I guess. We could build forums that’re sufficiently flexible that they could have features like this added to them without any involvement from hosts (in this case I’d implement it as a Proposal/mass commitment to read ‘post of the day’s, and the introduction of a ‘post of the day’ tag. I don’t think this even requires radical extensibility, just the tasteweb model), and we should build those instead of building more single purpose systems that are even less flexible than the few-purpose systems we already had.
No one wants to read and proceess others thoughts, even if they are great, if they are unpolished. There’s just too much out there. That being said, dumping your own thoughts unpolished into a document is great, and there’s rarely a reason not to do so publically as scooping is in practice incredibly rare, and usually done by convergent evolution not espionage. (e.g., the minimum viable code for my latest accepted cvpr submission was on github as well as up on my blog labelled “CVPR Equivariance” for over a year before I got it polished enough to actually submit, no one came anywhere close to scooping.
@mako yass