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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Feb 2019

      Two people can talk themselves into doing something neither would do alone. This force has a dark side. It drives bullying and, for large n, mobs. But it also produces some amazing things.

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Feb 2019

      "Collaboration" is too weak a word for this. It doesn't capture the miraculous way in which it violates conservation of morale.

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    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Feb 2019

      Twitter has turned out to be a great way to channel the dark side of this force. Is it possible to create something that channels the good side of it? I don't know if there's an answer to that. But if there is, it would be one hell of a startup idea.

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    4. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Feb 2019

      Arguably GitHub and GitLab are this for code. So if there is an answer, better Twitter and more general GitHub/GitLab converge on it.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Feb 2019

      At this point the YC partners are thinking "Noooo! Thousands more applications for collaboration apps!" Collaboration apps are indeed the base state of YC applications. But maybe that's because everyone senses there's something to be discovered here.

      1:56 AM - 15 Feb 2019
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        2. Ujjawal Chauhan‏ @ujjawalchauhan 15 Feb 2019
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          We need a space with idea-diaries for people. I've so many "What if we could _______" - eliminate food with pills, a controllable biological operating system for humans... It's always interesting to find and know more people thinking/wanting those things.

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        3. Lowkey Erudite‏ @ElijahClaude 15 Feb 2019
          Replying to @ujjawalchauhan @paulg

          I love this!! Everyday I try to think up unique ideas like this. Would be awesome to share it with others and see what they think and come up with too.

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        1.  🐍 Tal Weiss  🐍‏ @majortal 15 Feb 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          Good timing with the openai release. We can now weaponize the masses...

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        1. Xavier Damman  😷 🌍 🌱 🌻‏ @xdamman 15 Feb 2019
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          You need a reason for people who are into the same project to gather in one place. That’s what Github provided but only for code. Our goal is to do the same for any community. See our latest investors update https://medium.com/open-collective/2018-update-2d48e8c68568 … With climate change, time is now to collaborate.

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        1. Paul Olivier‏ @PaulSirkel 15 Feb 2019
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          A knowledge database maximizing choice

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        2. markrhill‏ @markrhill 15 Feb 2019
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          1/ Effective problem-solving requires Collaborative Empiricism, where Ideas are built into Products, measured to generate Data, which drives learning and improvement. Too much of Twitter is free-floating Collaborative Speculation, unmoored from effective Measurement and Learning.pic.twitter.com/21wPXkdkxd

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        3. Lowkey Erudite‏ @ElijahClaude 15 Feb 2019
          Replying to @markrhill @paulg

          This is awesome!! Tagging this for my own future reference #flubbi #opensourcefuturistideas

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        1. markrhill‏ @markrhill 15 Feb 2019
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          2/ it’s as if people learned nothing from the Scientific Revolution, effectively articulated in the late 17th century by the motto of the British Royal Society: Nullius in Verba (take nobody’s word for it.)pic.twitter.com/SEqT1BaSYm

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        1. markrhill‏ @markrhill 15 Feb 2019
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          3/ this “is an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment.” Much better than narrow-minded insistence on preferred dogma, via call outs vs data.

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        2. Elad Verbin‏ @verbine 15 Feb 2019
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          I've given talks about this topic, in a more general framing of "Collaboration Technology". CollabTech is technology for aligning incentives, solving economic tragedies, and reducing friction. The earliest CollabTech is religion, the latest is blockchain:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwtlsW8y6I …

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        3. Elad Verbin‏ @verbine 15 Feb 2019
          Replying to @verbine @paulg

          In particular, the earliest collaboration technologies are religion and the nation state: they maximize social welfare by realigning incentives to enable collective action (and to disincentivize us from murdering each other :) ). Then come the telegraph, cryptography, facebook.

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