Experimenting with ways to discover more interesting people to follow. I made a list of some of my favorite people on Twitter, scraped who they follow, removed the accounts I also follow, and made a list of the top 100. https://twitter.com/backus/lists/twitterrecs100 …
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I originally tried just applying this system to everyone I follow, but I just ended up with a list of celebrities (Elon, Tim Cook, Obama, Bill Gates) who I intentionally don't follow
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Penalizing people proportionally to how many followers they have kind of worked, but by then what I realized was that I just wanted to base it off of a smaller set of people I follow.
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I want to experiment with optimizing for diversity. I have a lot of rationalist / EA developer security journalist AI researcher VC or startup founder cryptocurrency enthusiast evolutionary psych/bio econ alternative computing futurism I want to find more orthogonal interests!
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