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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Sep 11

      where should i move to

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    2. Omar Rizwan‏ @rsnous Sep 11
      Replying to @djmicrobeads

      are u a programmer or not

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    3. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Sep 11
      Replying to @rsnous

      ofc i am lol

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    4. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 11
      Replying to @djmicrobeads @rsnous

      join us

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    5. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Sep 11
      Replying to @backus @rsnous

      hire me

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    6. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 11
      Replying to @djmicrobeads @rsnous

      hmm... have you read agon.pdf?

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Sep 11
      Replying to @backus @rsnous

      yeah I've skimmed it, pretty fun stuff

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 11
      Replying to @djmicrobeads @rsnous

      great. totally unrelated to the job but demonstrates good character

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    9. Daniel Klein‏ @othercriteria Sep 11
      Replying to @backus @djmicrobeads @rsnous

      *subcultural affiliation and taste in chiptune maybe

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    10. Daniel Klein‏ @othercriteria Sep 11
      Replying to @othercriteria @backus and

      Writing http://agon.py  (or http://agon.rs !) might be a more interesting signal.

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      John Backus‏ @backus Sep 11
      Replying to @othercriteria @djmicrobeads @rsnous

      I mean, rationalist adjacency is a pretty good zero code signal. Just look at the weird specific ads on SSC and how Stripe buys an ad spot on every episode of Rationally Speaking. Maybe postrat adjacency is where the degenerates wind up though

      5:29 PM - 11 Sep 2018
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        2. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 11

          urbit?

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        3. hikikomorphism 🏝 🛰️‏ @hikikomorphism Sep 11
          Replying to @backus @othercriteria and

          much more nrx-y, but I suppose there may be more of an overlap these days

          2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
        4. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 11
          Replying to @hikikomorphism @othercriteria and

          They're basically just weird-adjacent and seem to hoover up a bunch of different groups that specifically attract people willing to embrace weird and out there ideas. Seems to generally happen in a lot of the crypto space too.

          1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
        5. hikikomorphism 🏝 🛰️‏ @hikikomorphism Sep 11
          Replying to @backus @othercriteria and

          my problem with urbit is that it's deliberately, performatively obscure - this may have changed recently but last I looked there were core decisions (like flipping the True/False mapping of 1/0) that seemed to just exist to provide a sort of moat around the tech

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        6. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 11
          Replying to @hikikomorphism @othercriteria and

          I'm eternally still figuring out what is up with their tech (although I'm going to their summit soon so maybe I'll figure it out), so half-joke answer instead: Urbit being "deliberately, performatively obscure" is +10 evidence that they're a postrat company lol

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        7. -- ----------‏ @djmicrobeads Sep 11
          Replying to @backus @hikikomorphism and

          OMFG cmooooon. Postrat is not obscure. Meaningness is written clearly so that idiots can understand it. It's religion for children. That's a good thing. Urbit is babble.

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        8. John Backus‏ @backus Sep 11
          Replying to @djmicrobeads @hikikomorphism and

          lmao I mean maybe I'm biased by getting introduced through @ctbeiser. I'd unpack my reason behind the joke but I think Twitter has had enough rationalist vs postrationalist threads

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