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Haha, now I must track down the contexts of buttplug conversations on HN.

I'll ask Wilson to chime in on the question; thanks so much!

Good to hear!

IMHO if there's any take away from the last 20 years of the internet, it's how hard it is to have decent communities of people online, curated like a blooming garden of diversity. What are some online communities that you appreciate?

I have a Ph.D. in neuroscience with exactly 20 years of experience. I talk about what I know and try to be curious about what I don't know. HN really helps me on both counts. How does it help you?

Thanks so much!

We're trying to stay away from authority and just compute based on what you say then transparently show where that information came from. How do you think we can do better?

Right now if you add it to your HN profile we'll be able to include it.

We're trying to stay away from karma and focus on what people are saying within the community, rank orders, overall semantics, and more. How do you think we can do better?

Maybe also who you'd tend to get along with and your unique place in the community?

It's a topic we keep coming back to, seems like we can do better than sentiment analysis to show the semantic space of the sentiment(s) and how those breakdown by users and groups. For instance assuming a large discussion set of apples, different types of apples, and other types of fruits, we'd discover the patterns among users. Have you seen folks doing that type of semantic sentiment analytics?

We'll take a look at how to do better, thanks!

Ha, exactly!

Thank you for being so clear on where we are failing you. We're basically computing your semantic space as compared to the whole community. The map shows the relevant instances in that space. As you browse your concepts the space changes and we link to the relevant comments from the associated threads. Who knows what is prioritizing the user and the semantics / voice of that user amidst the noise of the whole community speaking at once.

We'd love to hear your feedback as you play with it more and we improve all of the above.

Thanks so much and for the great feedback!

We'll take a look!

Thanks so much! How do you see that study playing out in metrics that we can measure and examine?

We're trying to stay away from karma for that reason and focus on what people are saying within the community to find trusted voices. How can we do better?

Thanks for the feedback. How can we better support authenticity and trusted voices, where you fit in, and others like you?

Great call out! Would it help to make the points more interactive?

Thanks dang! Amazing to me how much HN brought Wilson and I together after 16 years and across the world. We're hopeful about the future of trust on the internet exactly because of communities like HN.

Thanks! Those are fair points. We're thinking we could uplevel the social layer so you can connect with people of similar interests for deeper connections. In this way we compute not just your contributions but how they relate to others.

As Wilson and I are working on this project, we'd love to hear your thoughts!

I did. It’s not about weed but derivatives.

Molecules don’t equal the subjectivity of different strains, terpenes, THC levels, etc.

Clickbait, not weed but THC and CBD derivatives that when combined can approximate the subjective feeling of being “high”.

No sleep or stress with heart rate seems like a missed opportunity. The games to help kids move is interesting but if a distraction in school more trouble than it’s worth.

We’re going to look back and see smartphones as kids smoking cigarettes.

I’m surprised this comment isn’t higher, looking at the history, it seems ripe for the same type of breakdown.

Can someone help me to understand why Google employees think they have some sort of first amendment rights there? Is it the culture / history of “do no evil” or the employees there feel especially privileged? Just seems like such a basic misunderstanding that you can say what you want without repercussions, being vocal isn’t a protected class.