Cross post, adapted for LessWrong
Several challenges add friction to finding high signal people and literature:
- High status may negatively impact signal.
- Exploration can only be done at the edges of my network, e.g. Twitter thread interactions or recommended people to follow, bottlenecked by I don’t know what I don’t know.
- Recommendations naturally bias toward popular people.
- Even recommended people from a curated following list may be important but low signal, e.g. Sam Altman’s priority is promoting OpenAI products.
- Validation - is this information valuable? - is manual vibe check.
We reapply PageRank to Twitter, which naturally weights “important” people higher. If Ilya Sutskever follows only three accounts, a puppy fan page among them, perhaps we should sit up and... (read 711 more words →)