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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 31, 2022

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Okay, just saw this on twitter https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721

"A huge problem with spam and bots and trolls"

"Verified users will pretty much always be at the top of comments and search ... You’ll have to scroll really far to see unverified users"

that would really suck! Compare that to the 4chan or rdrama ethos, right? Baby, bathwater

full 1hr conversation - https://youtube.com/watch?v=WgQBTo0EUxA

the early part is about tesla and is a great read (although not a great listen, really hate the talk/podcast format vs reading)

Other transcript excerpts (heavily edited for brevity, a solid 1/2 to 2/3 of words removed per excerpt, the voice format just sucks)

now on Twitter you'll see many links to YouTube and and TikTok - Twitter isn't giving content creators enough video length, and has no means of monetizing video - we're going to change that rapidly at Twitter"

That might work

On the verified change -

The point is to make crime not to pay - right now to create a bot on Twitter costs less than a penny - that's part of why crime and hateful conduct pays but if somebody risks losing eight bucks it's too expensive to have 100k fake accounts at $800k a month

Can't tell if 'hateful conduct' was just thrown in there to sound good (the guy he was talking to asked about antisemitism) because there aren't "100k hate speech bots" but if not, the 8/mo thing reducing 'hateful conduct' is not great

difficulty with activist groups pressuring major advertisers to drop us ... despite doing everything possible to appease them and clarify that moderation and hateful conduct rules haven't changed ... we've made no change in our operations at all

successful in in causing a massive drop in Twitter advertising revenue ... nothing working at appeasing them ... frankly an attack on the First Amendment

I think this is a sign that content rules won't loosen too much, not sure though.

[my] workload went up from about I don't know 70 to 80 hours a week to probably 120 . um so yeah I go to sleep I wake up I work go to sleep wake up work do that seven days a week ... I think once Twitter is set on the right path I think it is a much easier thing to manage than SpaceX or Tesla

[...] I'm aware of [...] how to make a way better PayPal [...] I there's there's a product plan [later: x.com game plan] I wrote I wish I'd kept a copy of in July 2000 to make the most valuable financial institution in the world and we're going to execute that, which amazingly no one has done, I think that's what part of why Twitter will be ultimately extremely valuable

the comment about x.com vision clashing with the twitter vision?

how do we get 80% of America - not like the far left and far right - to join a digital Town Square and voice their opinion and exchange ideas and once in a while change their minds

[...] decide what kind of experience you want to have on Twitter [...] pick your preference and and decide if you want full contact battle or to look at puppies

when asked why invest in tesla vs much cheaper p/e car companies making EVs: "many times I've recommended people don't invest in Tesla and I've said our stock is too high but when people just ignore me and keep buying the stock some reason [...] at a very high level I'd say that autonomy is an insanely fundamental breakthrough and and no one is even close to Tesla for solving generalized autonomy or generalized self-driving Vehicles"

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