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gaaaah i can't stop making things instead of doing the things I need to do to get paid for making things 🙃

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Thanks! heh yeah, I steward some communities that revolve around building out polislike tools, and I shared an invite to participate. Our tools and stories share a provenance, I suppose. So Raul and I are building on the same success stories of the tool Pol.is, and similar math primitives :)

But the stimuli from which the votes/reactions arrive are quite different: livestream moment-by-moment reactions vs each news article someone consumes

Had to break for the night, but I know there's def something to this area you're alluding to. It's a valuable area to be playing in, since determining where research should be, that is really broken in my experience...!

I worked under someone named Puja Ohlhaver a few years ago, helping her run the first in what was supposed to be a series of funding round events. It was based on the topics discussed here: 

The website and some code is here:
- https://www.pluralresearch.org/
- https://github.com/lexicongovernance/pluraltools-frontend
- https://github.com/PluralCC

The idea was to allow people who guess at the sites of future innovation (in semantic space) to gain more power to direct funds in each successive round. We ran the session at Eth.Berlin 2024, and gave away 50K EUR in grants i think.

The goal was kinda to reflow power from the funders and tenured researchers (who don't really follow the frontier) to the grad students (who have wider knowledge). A side-goal was also to promote cross-collaboration using Polis clusters (the tool I was managing).

Anyhow, it sounds like it might not be the exact same, but it's in your neighborhood -- I'll read the rest of the pitch tomorrow! You're in a valuable area though!

EDIT: I'm seeing some focus in other comments on the missing context of "the algorithm" and I think that's correct to point out, and an important omission. I've seen algorithms explained fully in public (see the talk above), and I'm not sure you should be operating from point of view of patenting it, because it's the whole magic, and it must be auditable, no? Besides, patenting an algorithm seems like unhelpful attempts at capture. I don't think I can really evaluate the pitch without knowing the algorithm, despite my thinking the opportunity is very ripe.

I am someone who went through the sciences for my post-secondary education, but despite that, I am always looking for ways to make sense of astrology. I do belief there's something to parts of it that I haven't heard a good explanation for. Having said that, I couldn't see in your write-up any links to the areas where my science-brain suggests we should be looking (orbital/light/seasonal cycles). Further, I tried very hard to follow your train of thinking to the best of my effort, even though it didn't feel real to me, but I struggled to connect the features of systems you were trying to bring together. It all felt a bit too unrelated and tenuous links to tie together into a story that my mind could feel good about.

I really appreciate the chance to bring my mind into a new domain, but I find that all I can say is that you seem like someone who I would really want to understand better if we met in the world. You seem sincerely passionate about this thing that I cannot understand, and someone who I think I would wish to succeed with their grand idea. I think there's a danger to pushing a new idea when you are a likeable sincere person, because people might be reluctant to discourage you.

I find myself really wanting to share encouragement, and while I don't think there's anything in your idea itself that I can endorse, there is a lot in your character that I wish to succeed in other endeavours <3

I am someone who went through the sciences for my post-secondary education, but despite that, I am always looking for ways to make sense of astrology. I do belief there's something to parts of it that I haven't heard a good explanation for. Having said that, I couldn't see in your write-up any links to the areas where my science-brain suggests we should be looking (orbital/light/seasonal cycles). Further, I tried very hard to follow your train of thinking to the best of my effort, even though it didn't feel real to me, but I struggled to connect the features of systems you were trying to bring together. It all felt a bit too unrelated and tenuous links to tie together into a story that my mind could feel good about.

I really appreciate the chance to bring my mind into a new domain, but I find that all I can say is that you seem like someone who I would really want to understand better if we met in the world. You seem sincerely passionate about this thing that I cannot understand, and someone who I think I would wish to succeed with their grand idea. I think there's a danger to pushing a new idea when you are a likeable sincere person, because people might be reluctant to discourage you.

I find myself really wanting to share encouragement, and while I don't think there's anything in your idea itself that I can endorse, there is a lot in your character that I wish to succeed in other endeavours <3

Full list of reaction canvas demos: https://polislike-partykit-reaction-canvas.patcon.partykit.dev/

omg, this is ugly, but just had to submit something, and I've been up all night!

Thanks for asking Jessica! Hoping to make time on Friday -- just getting ready to travel this weekend for a related gov hackathon that I'm getting flown out to in helsinki :)

yaaaay

scratch notes here for now https://docs.google.com/document/d/1usjRO6qaD3s67yVpTir6N0PMIa16CDImglBqaGdulvI/...