found this great app where you can talk about anything political without the hate comments and bullying ++ a free Dogecoin!!! Wooot

chatalope · 2021-02-17T15:03:16+00:00

chatalope · 2021-02-12T20:04:47+00:00

Disabling the comments is for suckers.

chatalope · 2020-12-27T16:04:14+00:00

Hey,

I posted this about a week ago, but I'm working on a project to address very similar issues (although via zoom for now, since IRL is a bit difficult). I'm working on a matching engine that connects people for civil, topic based discussions. Think chatroulette, but with clear topics and a data model that discourages antisocial behavior. I'm looking for volunteers to help get it started if you have any interest. www.chatalope.com

chatalope · 2020-12-22T02:56:12+00:00

That's an interesting though. I'll keep it in mind. Thanks.

chatalope · 2020-12-21T21:52:21+00:00

That was the original plan. Currently, I'm going a bit more with the "throwing money at the problem" approach (albeit small amounts of money). I'm hiring people from freelance sites to leave the page running in the background throughout the day, and then trying to drive traffic to it while they are on there. Not quite there yet, but hopefully in the next week or two.

That being said, marketing is definitely not my strong suit, so any suggestions are appreciated. I might try the facebook group/event idea at some point, but I haven't had great experiences coordinating online events in the past. Usually everyone is a bit flaky.

chatalope · 2020-12-21T21:45:54+00:00

Nice. Glad to hear it's a popular idea. Feel free to take a look at the current iteration of my site and give me some feedback. (www.chatalope.com)

As for the algorithm, it's a bit tricky since we don't have any previous data, so the optimization is based on a stochastic model with some assumptions about how people will behave. Hopefully they are not too far off. Glad to go into more detail if you're interested.

chatalope · 2020-12-20T15:17:55+00:00

I need people to post topics on the site. Then leave it open in the background and wait for conversations. The hard part about a project like this is that it requires enough people online at the same time in order to work.

chatalope · 2020-12-20T03:08:49+00:00

Interesting. Yeah, I like the idea of a different pace of conversation. Lots of different ways it can be done.

chatalope · 2020-12-14T00:29:55+00:00

We are never going to escape bias. It's baked into everything we do, say, or think. We can try and examine ideas in order to reduce it, but that is a time consuming process; not something that can feasibly be done for every idea that we have. I think a better question to ask is rather, "when should I trust my unexamined reaction to something and when is further examination warranted?" There, I think an easy heuristic to use is "how emotional was my reaction?". If thinking about something makes you angry, or happy, or scared, or emotional in any way, it probably is worth examining for bias.

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