Curious how big each of these active ingredients seemed, or if there were other active ingredients:
1) the privacy (not having any expectation that any onlookers would need to understand what you were saying)
2) the format (linear column of chats, with a small textbox that subtly shaped how much you said at a time)
3) not having other people talking (so you don’t have to stop and pay attention to them)
4) the realtime nature (wherein you expect to get responses quickly, which allows for faster back-and-forth and checking that you are both on the same page before moving to the next point)
The overall problem with the status quo is that private conversations are worse for onboarding new people into the AI space. So I think it’s quite likely that the best way to improve this is to facilitate private conversations, and them either make them public or distill them afterwards. But there are different ways to go about that depending on which elements are most important.
Primarily 4, somewhat 1, somewhat 2, not at all 3. I think 1 and 2 mattered mostly in the sense that with comments the expectation is that you respond in some depth and with justification, whereas with messaging I just said things with no justification that only TurnTrout had to understand and only needed to explain the ones that we disagreed on.
I do think that conversation was uniquely bad for onboarding new people, I’m not sure I would understand what was said if I reread it two months from now. I did in fact post a distillation of it afterwards.
Curious how big each of these active ingredients seemed, or if there were other active ingredients:
1) the privacy (not having any expectation that any onlookers would need to understand what you were saying)
2) the format (linear column of chats, with a small textbox that subtly shaped how much you said at a time)
3) not having other people talking (so you don’t have to stop and pay attention to them)
4) the realtime nature (wherein you expect to get responses quickly, which allows for faster back-and-forth and checking that you are both on the same page before moving to the next point)
The overall problem with the status quo is that private conversations are worse for onboarding new people into the AI space. So I think it’s quite likely that the best way to improve this is to facilitate private conversations, and them either make them public or distill them afterwards. But there are different ways to go about that depending on which elements are most important.
Primarily 4, somewhat 1, somewhat 2, not at all 3. I think 1 and 2 mattered mostly in the sense that with comments the expectation is that you respond in some depth and with justification, whereas with messaging I just said things with no justification that only TurnTrout had to understand and only needed to explain the ones that we disagreed on.
I do think that conversation was uniquely bad for onboarding new people, I’m not sure I would understand what was said if I reread it two months from now. I did in fact post a distillation of it afterwards.