Just made my first entry into nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft‘s Wikifreedia. Pretty easy process. My web of trust follows number is correct but network size and WoT size are zero, even when I set WoT required score to 1 — I don’t know if that’s a bug or just incomplete?

I’m excited to see how it evolves!

https://wikifreedia.xyz/electroencephalography/e5272de914bd301755

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If I were to hire a team to build an app that makes use of the ideas in that article, how’s this for a pitch:

“The Pretty Good Wiki uses the Grapevine to enable you and your community to identify the most trustworthy curators for your encyclopedia of content, facts, and information.”

We gotta figure out what to do after 100k!

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My dream is that decentralized web of trust will enable us to find the good ideas and great thinkers who get buried in a fiat world. Once WoT works then back to the deeper questions

I hadn’t ever heard of measurements of G being not constant, so ty for posting that. Very interesting. I used to spend a lot more time soaking up this sort of thing — interpretations of QM (as opposed to the theory itself), Bell’s theorem and quantum nonlocality, ideas on how to unify all that with GR into a single theory — but that obsession has been replaced with bitcoin and freedom tech 🤓

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Will is right. There is a steady stream of claims of ways to send signals FTL, which would be a major violation of GR, and they usually can be traced to some part of the physics being misunderstood or misapplied. Think Brandolini’s law, but for physics. Not saying it’s impossible (and I haven’t read this specific claim) but one should be VERY skeptical of any FTL claims.

GM! ☀️ ☕️

My boat may be long gone, but I ain’t never losing this sweet ride.

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Oops - minus the first “trusted”

How’s this revised elevator pitch:

“The Grapevine enables you and your trusted community to identify who is trustworthy, and in what context, so they can help you curate content, facts, and information.

Web of trust touches every aspect of the internet. Our tech stack will allow all of it to be rebuilt, one platform at a time. And even though they will be standalone products, your identity and your data will be portable, stored using decentralized protocols like nostr, which means the Grapevine will span and connect every platform that uses it.”

But you’re right: pitching it as a services / consultancy would be the wrong approach.

One option, which may not fit into a 60 second pitch, would be to use smaller projects like the example I gave to build out the Grapevine tech stack, and once that’s built out enough, then build platforms of my own: a decentralized wikipedia, a decentralized Yelp, etc. Web of trust touches every corner of the internet, and it’s all going to have to be rebuilt, one platform at a time.

I find the process of putting together a pitch to be worthwhile. It forces one to answer questions like what’s your product, who’s your client, how’s it being monetized. And I know I won’t be ready to put together a team until I can communicate it clearly and efficiently to prospective team members.

I’m putting together a 60 second pitch for YC Find a Co-Founder. But my intended audience is any prospective team member. I want to answer the Qs: what is the product? and who is the client? So if I take what I had yesterday and add more to try to answer those questions I might say:

“The Grapevine enables you and your trusted community to identify who is trustworthy, and in what context, so they can help you curate content, facts, and information.

Our clients hire us to build customized applications that harness the Grapevine to curate their content.

Example: The client is a neurologist and educator who wants an online atlas of brainwave images, with content contributed and curated by experts, as identified by the Grapevine.”

An alternative path is that our company builds our own Grapevine-powered apps and the users are our clients. I think that’s what I’m wrestling with.

How’s this for a 30 second elevator pitch:

The Grapevine enables your community to identify trustworthy content curators.

We build applications customized around the client’s data model.

Example: The client is a neurologist and educator who wants an online atlas of brainwave images, with content contributed and curated by experts, as identified by the Grapevine.

Our essential insight is that your web of trust cannot do a good job at curation of content, facts, and information unless it simultaneously curates the categories that we use for those things. The Grapevine will curate the categories and how those categories are organized and the other digital tools that we use to communicate on these topics.