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Amusingly, I disagree with the founder! He clashed w Eliezer, who wanted to focus on specific content, do special-case stuff, perfect that. Alexei thinks they should have focused on getting more authors. Premature in my view: prove in the high-effort case, then generalize.

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It’s sad: in the end, we’re left with no clear insight about what the best-case problems were with that core idea of surfacing and navigating dependency chains.

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David Chapman

@Meaningness

I’m reading it now… thank you, extremely interesting, and discouraging. Given your bearishness on the whole space, I’m wondering why you have built, and are actively using, one yourself?

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My goals are very different. My writing system is about helping me think, not about creating a legible communications artifact. The challenges are quite different across the two domains! The classic hypertext problems aren’t so limiting in a writing-focused context.

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