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Frustrations With Blogging Platforms

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With Twitter, Reddit and possibly YouTube in fundamental decline now seems like a good time to reexamine writing on the Internet. I’ve been occasionally asked why I stopped doing public long-form writing and part of the answer is I feel there’s less and less to write about. Part of the answer is that I didn’t stop, I just started posting long threads to Twitter instead of blog posts when The Discourse frustrates me. The reason for this is something like platform dysphoria: Every time I consider writing long-form, I get hung up on where to post it. I’d probably get a lot of interest on LessWrong, but then my audience would be LessWrong. In fact almost every venue is characterized by a kind of AI derangement syndrome where sharing ideas based on the deep learning literature invites people to respond in a broken dialect of outdated 80’s cognitive science and 90’s pop culture connectionism that I’m somehow expected to pretend forms a coherent thought. As for my own platforms and sites, I’m

Frustrations With Blogging Platforms John David Pressman August 11, 2023 With Twitter, Reddit and possibly YouTube in fundamental decline now seems like a good time to reexamine writing on the Internet. I’ve been occasionally asked why I stopped doing public long-form writing and part of the answer is I feel there’s less and less to write about . Part of the answer is that I didn’t stop, I just started posting long threads to Twitter instead of blog posts when The Discourse frustrates me. The reason for this is something like platform dysphoria: Every time I consider writing long-form, I get h

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