tuning
- Qiaochu > I want my computer/browser to know where I'm at emotionally
- 2 metaphors
- tuning a radio
- nice little analog metaphor
- and lets
- emotional attunement
- Malcolm > this is you living in the future
- not with respect to ML / whether or not it's possible, per se
- but like, you know what it feels like to interact with a system that's attuned to you
- and you think it's reasonable to expect that of a computer
- (I think Nick Winter had an old piece of software that did webcam mood analysis)
- this
- design metaphor of being able to specify something like a mood or
- serves them to you at the right time
- context-dependent
- there should be a much richer way to describe you context to your browser
- and then it goes to the giant repository of links that you have and serves you the right ones
- M > relates to my concept of tags in optimal streaming-music player & organizer
- QC > like how spotify serves you a song and you like/dislike
- what if it, or twitter, could let you say "this is not the thing I'm in the mood for"
- QC > tiktok I think is good at this?
- Malcolm > old blog post of mine
- QC > "After some reflection, I concluded that how I really felt was misunderstood."
- YES! I feel misunderstood
4 linked references
February 7th, 2021
co-watching / co-learning Doug Engelbart's Mother of All … › paused at 18:30 › QC > fully-frictionless product - omnitext › and receive text that I want to read › Designing a better browser\workflow for Twitter & more
- QC > sounds like pocket+anki with tuning
co-watching / co-learning Doug Engelbart's Mother of All … › paused at 18:30 › QC > fully-frictionless product - omnitext
- re tuning
Conversation App Design ("slack but good")
What problem is being solved here? › They're solving the problem of "XMPP never took off so th… › > tune into this context
- relates to tuning and also points at user control - this is missing from Discord where you can't easily be only on one server at once - slack gets this right, ish