That’s step 1. Steps 2 and after involve slowly converging towards the original Arbital vision. I just don’t think you can get there without mass adoption.
Is there actually any sort of obvious path from a microblogging platform to “the original Arbital vision”? I confess I don’t really see one, but maybe I haven’t understood what the original Arbital vision was.
Basically what we tried is: “let’s figure out how people are supposed to have truth-seeking conversations, build a platform that facilities that, and then grow it.” Step 1 is very hard. Step 3 is made harder because your platform only attracts truth-seeking people.
New approach: “build a platform that facilities communication, grow it, then shape the ongoing discussion to be more truth-seeking.” Step 1 is still hard, but not made harder. Step 3 sounds a lot more doable.
That’s step 1. Steps 2 and after involve slowly converging towards the original Arbital vision. I just don’t think you can get there without mass adoption.
Is there actually any sort of obvious path from a microblogging platform to “the original Arbital vision”? I confess I don’t really see one, but maybe I haven’t understood what the original Arbital vision was.
Here are like 5 pages explaining all the visions: https://arbital.com/p/more_about_arbital/
Basically what we tried is: “let’s figure out how people are supposed to have truth-seeking conversations, build a platform that facilities that, and then grow it.” Step 1 is very hard. Step 3 is made harder because your platform only attracts truth-seeking people.
New approach: “build a platform that facilities communication, grow it, then shape the ongoing discussion to be more truth-seeking.” Step 1 is still hard, but not made harder. Step 3 sounds a lot more doable.
Why do you believe that your new microblogging service will get mass adoption?
It’s a complicated answer and also somewhat outside of the topic I want to discuss here (which is Arbital 1.0). For part of the answer see: http://lesswrong.com/lw/otq/whats_up_with_arbital/dqbc
Inside View much?