52 Tweets by
Conor White Sullivan

The state of social media censorship: When pointing at a peer-reviewed meta-analysis paper (strongest evidence we have in medicine) for off-label use of an FDA approved drug, that is safer than Tylenol, shown to prevent Covid-19 Is enough to get you banned #followthesilence twitter.com/BretWeinstein/…

Thing I love most about this is that so much of the infrastructure is based on ideas that weren’t mine - this is very different from group workflows I’ve used, influence of @Mappletons and @andy_matuschak is palpable twitter.com/realfakepicnic…

Almost every new idea is wrong, and the right ideas will look wrong to an outsider way longer that evidence of current levels of fucking around support twitter.com/lexfridman/sta…

β€œFuck around and find out” is a noble virtue in truth-seeking civilizations. Few seem to know this.

Had an amazing call with the CEO of a Series B stage tech company yesterday - a recent and passionate convert to the #roamcult - who gave probably the clearest articulation of the problems that @RoamResearch solves for executives and team leaders I've heard. Quick thread

Super interesting. An AI takes direct, to the point, honest feedback β€” which takes less time to write but can come off as mean β€” and softens it with cushion words. The next step is to have an AI that translates the flowery sensitive language back to β€œnew photo sucks, change it” twitter.com/heyreiwang/sta…

If you know what you want to do in your life, and you don’t 100% need the credentials, you should probably drop out.

What can a technologist do about climate change? This was a major motivating reason for me to start building tools for collective intelligence augmentation, like Engelbart I choose to focus on meta problem that I see as having largest impact, but ymmv worrydream.com/ClimateChange/

Don’t let anyone use stupid prizes to bait you into playing stupid games

over 2 years ago

There is nothing more dangerous than a little knowledge... so you should consider it your civic duty to only be informed about the things you actually care very deeply about or which spark your curiosity... and to ignore pretty much everything else twitter.com/SloaneSays/sta…

β€œwait, what’s that you say? The Mexican pipeline was nationalized by the Mexican government decades ago, aka it was socialized, aka this is technically and objectively speaking a failure of socialist policy?” - @micsolana absolutely β˜ οΈβ€™en em! piratewires.com/p/global-warmi… twitter.com/NYCMayor/statu…

Soon we’ll announcing a sort of β€œbasic income” program, where we grant a handful of researchers (mostly designers and developers in Roam community) $1,000/month for 1 or 2 years in exchange for their working with the garage door open... We could do something similar here...

I’m not exactly sure how to run this project yet - I just know I want to put at least one Bitcoin towards this House of Wisdom project - 1 #btc is currently about $60,000 USD - and I want to have awarded that by the end of #Ramadan So if you have suggestions - please share

Just to be perfectly clear, @RoamResearch we don’t want use you private notes to learn about you - AT ALL. Only reason normal graphs don’t have E2EE across the board is because combining that w multiplayer is A) A hard design problem B) A hard engineering problem And C)... twitter.com/jevakallio/sta…

Grimm's Law - the connection between Sanskrit and Ancient Greek, Latin, and the European Languages youtube.com/watch?v=VnjfHu… HT @juliana_slova

over 2 years ago

One thing @roamhacker probably doesn't realize is that I spend hours and hours every week working on trying to clearly articulate the maze of questions that go into some of our prioritization decisions - and that my number one, two and three goals for product is creating this map

If you want to try writing out all the questions that YOU think Roam will need to answer (on design, engineering, and operational side) I would love to hear them - and I can tell you which ones we're already working on - which ones we're actively testing hypothesis on

I'm suspicious. I think one of the developers they interviewed might have been a MetaHuman character. Fact that I can't tell for sure says something. youtu.be/OeUBATSJSr0?t=… pic.twitter.com/Blo1O9JGJz

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When you make something 100x faster, and 100x cheaper, you get something totally new. This Engine is Unreal. twitter.com/andreoshea/sta…

@gordonbrander One plausible reason that Roam still doesn't do everything that Engelbart did in his Mother of All Demos is that big parts of the demo were "fake" Everything he did then IS very doable now, but it's 50 years later and no one has done it all for real yet twitter.com/gordonbrander/…

There are huge number of open questions built into this - so on a day to day basis my priority is β€œBootstrap our collective intelligence” So if we find small bets we can take that have chance of helping us think better or coordinate more effectively, we’ll go meta and take em.

2021 vision I’ve shared with team since January but not tweeted: Replace the signal chats where I’ve gotten some of best advice from other founders with an Encrypted Multiplayer Mobile App For @RoamResearch Lot of other improvements and opportunities, but that’s my priority

Highly productive research in tech today often = taking ideas that were born in 60s and 70s, but not right for their time, and bringing them back with a vengeance. First time I met @Suhail I was like β€” hell yeah, he’s cleaning up the other part of the mess Steve left us with. twitter.com/p0w32/status/1…