I made https://others.com as an attempt to make a space for meaningful connection and conversation on the internet. Turns out the hard part is getting enough people in there!
Ah man this is a great execution of something I’ve been trying to get right in a side project for a while now. This whole idea of building valuable social connections and conversations out of the massive floating borg cloud of the current internet is what I aimed for with https://otherrs.com but this just feels like a much better way to achieve that same goal :)
I love how he was able to identify a problem of huge scale that truly mattered to him and was able to make a massive impact in solving that problem. Very inspiring. It feels very rare that all of those things line up (identifying a core problem, having the ability to solve it, and the time in which to do so), but this article gives me hope to keep striving for it
What's interesting is that the mission and its underlying question isn't that dissimilar from Doug Engelbart's, but the answer is completely different. Not a bootstrapping cyborg, but a friendly tool for recording and communicating data.
Losing it is my biggest reason for needing the audio jack. I not only lose dongles I also lost my expensive Airpods even with the Find My app. I also lose my wired earbuds but at least they're cheap. I know many people that don't have as big a problem with losing things, maybe it's a personality thing.
A friend of mine semi-permanently attached his dongle to his headphones by heatshrinking over the joined headphone jack/socket (after having lost several already). Seems to be a neat/workable solution. (I've never had my dongle come accidentally detached from my headphones. Maybe the tolerances in my headphone jack and my dongle socket all serendipitously turned out "just right"...)
You can if you order a Chinese splitter. All it does is split your lightning into two ports: the charging pins and all the other pins. Because the sound is sent digitally from your lighting port to the splitter, then digitally again to the lightning-to-3.5mm dongle you have no quality loss from a subpar splitter chip.
Edit: to be clear, this shouldn’t be needed, but alas, we cannot steer Apple.
That #10.5 point really resonates with me. Especially now with all of this isolation, it’s become very apparent that almost all communication on the internet is the screaming from inside the car type instead of the real human connection type. I made https://otherrs.com/ as an experiment to see if I could drum up more of that second type
Loneliness! We have really lost our sense of community with those around us so I’m trying to see if we could supplement that with strangers on the internet.
That idea of a Nash equilibrium is very interesting. I wonder if there really are multiple Nash equilibriums for many systems. At least in the prisoner example the article talked about it seemed more like there is a single optimal N.E. and it only changed once the circumstances/system changed
Equilibria concepts in game theory are many and varied. A system may have many Nash Equilibria, in mixed strategies and in pure strategies. Nash equilibria are where no one player has an incentive to deviate from their current strategy.
Game theory is a fascinating topic I highly encourage interested folks to investigate.
