samantha-wiki

Yeah when I saw this article title I initially expected it to be about Nick Land

Is it open source? If not, why choose the name “OpenNode”?

NYC would be cool!

“I played with fire and got burnt.”

I agree strongly with this. I would ditch my iPhone in a heartbeat for an open source alternative.

It seems like an alternative might be something along the lines of this, just a rough sketch

- Alice wants Bob to notify her about something

- Bob advertises an email address specific to that something

- Alice creates a disposable email address and requests that Bob notify her about that something at that disposable email address

- Alice only accepts emails to that address from Bob's something-specific email

- Once Alice receives an email from Bob's something-specific email she discards the disposable email

The author of the article researches far right extremism and has been targeted by certain groups in the past IIRC, I read this part as a concern about physical safety, but this is just my speculation.

I was fortunate enough to take this course with Ted Shifrin at UGA, he is an incredible professor (now retired), and it was one of my favorite courses when I was in undergrad.

I strongly disagree with this. “Computers” would have not been replaced with the machines that replaced them if those machines routinely produced incorrect results.

One could argue that for applications where correctness is not critical my position does not apply, however this is not the analogy that the article is making.

My fear is that if I were to start doing this, I would stop engaging in the difficult aspects of building something. And I think the skills I have now would atrophy.