@Cedar No opinion on write.as
My approach is "ignore newsletters and try to build a long site", but I agree that's not useful to most other people who want to live off what they do.
(*not* Hanson though. He should be writing a long site à la Gwern. he's a tenured professor, and I think he made the switch bc substack is trendy.)
I think I'll half-heartedly try long site+patreon, fail, and then go work a normal job and work on the site during part of my free time.
is this a crossover episode
@Cedar
Oh my. I think I could probably write a short book on the topic, but I don't wanna ("the art must have some purpose other than itself, or it collapses into infinite recursion").
(the topic being how the internet is getting worse, and what a good website looks like)
That said, I dislike this change in particular because
1. substack is slow compared to wordpress and other platforms (with a bunch of chickenshit minimalism)
2. when I wget a substack the result is unusable
@amy
there are two possible options for document formatting systems:
small sharp knives that once in a while just turn into dust and interstellar tentacle guns that the previous alien civilization built and we just use superficially
also who owns the domain hell.network
and doesn't do anything with it
fellas this cannot be tolerated
@theresnotime for Löbian reasons
@theresnotime Are you the list of common misconceptions? Because no matter how far I stray, I always come back to you
@pseudoriemann @newt you know, by this point, I'll take it.
@pseudoriemann @newt frontloading the difficult steps
@kala_ aren't we all hitler on this blessed day ❤️
I operate by Crocker's rules[1].