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This is really fun — have you played with making the tile position opinionated (not agnostic)?

i wonder if have the clues point to a starting square (e.g., "E5") would be better than the current "reveal" aid. The spatial information would become more helpful toward the end when the player is dealing with the words they need help on.


Could you expand on what you mean about opinionated vs agnostic? It sounds interesting but I’m not sure I follow.

I like that clue idea! I want to change how the reveals work. I’ll play with that!


It's at the end of the interview. He wants to build Starfleet Academy for technical fields. Physical with a digital equivalent. Thinks education will become like a gym (self-educate to look sexy) by the time AGI gets here.


It kind of already exists as youtube. Star fleet academy wasn’t really for training the best of the best. The best usually don’t have time to waste on all students… they usually take apprentices. The best of the best students don’t waste time in an academy.


Building a Duolingo-like app to "learn from the greats, daily." (https://www.scrivium.com)

Until recently, it was cost-prohibitive to gamify topics with indefinite answers and progressions. As a result, "left-brained" topics have been gamified for years, but "right-brained" topics have resisted gamification. LLMs and generative AI unlock game economics for unstructured text.

Casual gaming is only category outpacing passive, social media. The most direct way to elevate humanity's media appetite is to turn human greatness into casual games.


Real GDP per capita growth for US vs UK was almost identical until 2008. The last 3 years have been terrible for the UK, but if you're looking for the start of UK's stagnation you have to go much farther back than Brexit.


The problem I see is that although the trend may have started before, Brexit caused the local financial services sector to effectively collapse and move to the Netherlands and Germany. London will never be able to recover that loss in ten generations. Had brexiters not ejected your finance industry, there was probably an opportunity to recover.


As far as I am aware, this is just straight up is not true. Do you have a source for this? Because if the financial sector in the UK halved and moved into the Netherlands and Germany the UK would be doing much, much worse, and Germany much better economically.

See:

https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/01/31/brexit-four-yea...

which is a source that is not going to be biased towards Brexit success, and instead against it (not that there was any success in it, but still).


I looked this up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_centre#Global_Financ... ) and I think you have got things wrong.


This - the economy rode on financialisation and north sea oil for the two decades before 2008. Since 2008 there has been no real action to resolve the core issue of unlocking the potential of the North of England - everyone knows that that is low hanging fruit (human capital, regional infrastructure etc) but no one will actually take the risk and go for it.


Or it's just a misleading headline


The headline is correctly using the term according to the NHTSA definition as a requirement for the manufacturer to fix an unreasonable safety issue. Whether it is OTA does not change the fact that it is a recall any more than if a manufacturer sent someone onsite to fix a mechanical issue instead of having the vehicle owner bring it in.


If only a 5 second Google search could tell you: https://autocrypt.io/transformation-of-vehicle-recall/


The fact that this thread is full of people who envisioned a physical recall is evidence enough the word is misleading. If reuters was an industry journal, sure.


Uhh the point is for people to take it seriously. Which works.


We tried to partner recently to co-create interactive books with a well-known classical education influencer on X.

His job was to select passages from books and provide some commentary. Ours was to turn that material into an interactive title.

We tried tirelessly to look up the passages he'd send to us in the original text. The only quotes that matched were the top 5% short and famous quotes. The rest was made up completely, presumably by AI.

His 1 million+ followers consider him a world-class subject matter expert. But he doesn't read any of the books he's teaching. Eye opening.


Are you saying he posted scripture that didn't exist? Who is this? I actually don't believe that. Many people are surprisingly good with their scripture and would immediately spot someone quoting non-existent scripture.

Unless maybe he was quoting some non-canon like Mormon books. Very common for "Christian" influencers to be LDS.


They said classical education, so that would be Roman and Greek books.


i can believe this. many "experts" are consistent bullshitters, and it helps them to look more like experts.

this is not always intentional either, and there is a lot of social pressure to do it.

have you ever read a popular article about something you have expert knowledge in? the general standard for accuracy and quality in public discourse is mindblowingly low.


Bullshitting? yes, absolutely.

But you can't make up scripture without being immediately spotted. Their comments would be flooded with people calling them out.

It's like trying to talk about star trek episodes that don't exist with star trek nerds. There would be a few seconds of confusion before the righteous indignation.


Not scripture. Passages from the "Great Books" (literature, philosophy, poetry...)


Would "pragmatic-universal" and "pragmatic-consensus" count as a fifth and sixth? I.e., "what's useful for the group?" and "what the group thinks is useful for them?"

An example of the first category might be a parent deciding it's better for their kids to believe in Santa Claus. An example of the second is to create a society on some maxim that's rendered true by group-consensus, "everyone should have an equal say."


I'm curious how education or entertainment companies fit into this framework, or how they think about PMF in general.

Was Duolingo targeting customers who accepted the "hard fact" that passive audio was the only way to learn a language? Was MasterClass a "future vision" because people didn't believe celebrities would spend their time teaching? Or is it that we NEED education and entertainment, so these two providers just differentiated from a crowded market.


Alternatively Duolingo sells a casual memory game that differentiate by giving the illusion of productivity. And Masterclass sells attention and status to a class of people who are already attention-oriented by stroking their egos. I’m not saying this hot take is necessarily true, but the market isn’t always categorized by what we intuitively think. And realizing that can sometimes give you a massive benefit, simply by applying existing and effective techniques (in these cases gamification and people-oriented success storytelling, respectively) from a domain your competitors don't understand or care about.


Yeah, to me, Duolingo seems to be Hard Fact. But MasterClass might be also Hard Fact. MasterClass is not a totally different education service compared to the existing incumbents. Online university could be MasterClass.


I like this idea, although preference-tuning for politeness might negate this effect


I'm bootstrapping https://www.crone.ai and making a small amount of money.

I've bootstrapped a few companies. B2B apps are easier since you can do custom work for business clients while you perfect your software.

Crone AI is much harder. It's my first edtech consumer app. It's been live for 3 months and we've made $1,500 so far (lol).

My previous business startups made $200k ARR and $1M ARR. Iterating on consumer apps is more fun and you can still extrapolate growth from small numbers.


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