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@wabdoteth I am not part of CT and I do not follow anyone from that circle. But I have come across a few posts connected to @nikitabier and the @X algorithm this morning, and here I am. I read your long post because it was genuinely interesting and well written, so I wanted to reply.

it's pretty clear that the new algorithm is destroying the platform and the people in charge wont realise until it's too late because the method of action is more insidious. the real reason is that the team internally thinks they are building reddit instead of 4chan; which is to say they do not understand who their user base of creators is nor which diaspora of internet people they are serving. you can see this across a few of the moves that were made the past year; an obsession with the 'front page' [a very reddit concept] and a tight curating of which posting styles can reach it. the failed official X Bangers account gave us a window into the brains of the product team and what posts they see as "high quality posting". nearly all of the posts included were slop which appealed to the lowest common denominator—the lowest common denominator being where the variable they're optimising for [unregretted user minutes] is being wasted. the metrics used to measure success are lying. initiatives and incentivisation like this has driven posting behaviour to become derivative of the same slop; cynical commentary that's divorced of personality—open the for you page, fixate less on each post's content but more on the overall post structure, and you will see that it's mostly some permutation of: < elon glazing post > < satirical quote tweet on some news event > < we hate men/women because > < something MAGA > < the current trending topic e.g. vibe coding > < maybe a couple of posts from your specific network or set of interests > this is the exact same thing that is being shoveled to users every single day. it is becoming stale, and the way that commentary is structured [in order to go viral] has become homogenous to the point where every viral post follows a specific written formula; it's similar to a new age RW version of 'reddit-speak', one which will eventually (and already does) trigger visceral disgust when read as it continues to be optimized to its final state. if X was a news app this would all be fine, but it's not, it's an anon forum of interconnected subnetworks. the old algorithm was structured this way; first you must go viral within your cluster, once that is achieved, you must go viral within adjacent clusters, until it hits the for you page. this made more sense because posting quality was vetted by those most adjacent to said interest that you were posting in, ensuring that the post was worthy of being pushed to a wider audience and had real substance, instead of the new algorithm which reduces to 'will the lowest common denominator find this interesting'. having a 'front page' isn't intuitively a bad concept—it's a good thing—but when you think about reddit [ignoring the 'karma-whoring' front page chasing that aided in rotting the platform], there was actually some escape from the front page in the form of subreddits. X completely hides real "communities" (the underlying network graph, not the ad-hoc feature that doesn't work) and with recent social/algorithmic changes, this has death spiraled to the point where from the perspective of power users most of the network graphs have dissolved....this should be more alarming to X staff but the comment from nikita and misdefining of a particular network (CT) tells you how this isn't even a subconscious thought of how the underlying system works. 4chan had the exact same clustering in the form of segmented image boards, and it's why after 4chan mostly died most of the higher quality posters migrated to X; they stuck because the X algorithm ~functionally segmented into these same boards. continuing to alienate these types of users will cause the platform to devolve into recycled and regurgitated 'bangers' and formulaic posting which is already happening. there isn't necessarily a huge amount that nikita is doing algorithmically wrong, it's a cultural issue and the obsession with the front page of X that's systemically driving behaviour and as a second order effect dissolving these underlying network clusters. understandably X is trying to shift more towards an interest graph to cast a wider net, the issue that needs to be addressed is that majority of the high quality posters that underpin the platform are in it for the social graph. when you start optimising around variables that lack context you start draining the lifeblood out of the platform and all that will be left is a husk. this type of death is more insidious than those driven by scandals or a handicapped engineering team. there are still some solutions like allowing users to manually switch between different open-sourced algorithms or letting them prompt their own algorithm to tweak it towards what they prefer. the cynic in me says they've already A/B tested this and found it hurts some of the variables they're optimising for which is why it's been a neglected thought since the elon takeover.

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This strange square 👇 is undoubtedly the most extraordinary work of literature in human history. Yet, unfortunately, barely anyone in the West has ever heard of it. There was this woman poet in 4th century China called Su Hui (蘇蕙), a child genius who had reportedly mastered Chinese characters by age 3. At 21 years old, heartbroken by her husband who left her for another woman, she decided to encode her feelings in a structure so intricate, so beautiful, so intellectually staggering that it still baffles scholars to this day. Came to be known as the Xuanji Tu (璇璣圖) - the "Star Gauge" or "Map of the Armillary Sphere" - it's a 29 by 29 grid of 841 characters that can produce over 4,000 different poems. Read it forward. Read it backward. Read it horizontally, vertically, diagonally. Read it spiraling outward from the center. Read it in circles around the outer edge. Each path through the grid produces a different poem - all of them coherent, all of them beautiful, all of them rhyming, all of them expressing variations on the same themes of longing, betrayal, regret, and undying love. The outer ring of 112 characters forms a single circular poem - believed to be both the first and longest of its kind ever written. The interior grid produces 2,848 different four-line poems of seven characters each. In addition, there are hundreds of other smaller and longer poems, depending on the reading method. At the center a single character she left implied but unwritten: 心 (xin) - "heart." Later copyists would add it explicitly, but in Su Hui's original the meaning was even more beautiful: 4,000 poems, all orbiting the space where her heart used to be. Take for instance the outer red grid of the Star Gauge. Starting from the top right corner and reading down, you get this seven-character quatrain: 仁智懷德聖虞唐， 貞志篤終誓穹蒼， 欽所感想妄淫荒， 心憂增慕懷慘傷。 In pinyin, it is: Rén zhì huái dé shèng yú táng, zhēnzhì dǔ zhōng shì qióng cāng, qīn suǒ gǎnxiǎng wàng yín huāng, xīn yōu zēng mù huái cǎn shāng. Notice how it rhymes? táng / cāng / huāng / shāng The rough translation in English is: "The benevolent and wise cherish virtue, like the sage-kings Yao and Shun, With steadfast will I swear to the heavens above, What I revere and feel - how could it be wanton or dissolute? My heart's sorrow grows, longing brings only grief." Now read it from the bottom to the top and you get this entirely different seven-character quatrain: 傷慘懷慕增憂心， 荒淫妄想感所欽， 蒼穹誓終篤志貞， 唐虞聖德懷智仁。 The pinyin: Shāng cǎn huái mù zēng yōu xīn, huāngyín wàngxiǎng gǎn suǒ qīn, cāngqióng shì zhōng dǔzhì zhēn, táng yúshèngdé huái zhì rén. It rhymes too: xīn and qīn, zhēn and rén And the meaning is just as beautiful and coherent: "Grief and sorrow, longing fills my worried heart, Wanton and dissolute fantasies - is that what you revere? I swear to the heavens my constancy is true, May we embody the sage-kings' virtue, wisdom, and benevolence." That's just 2 poems out of the over 4,000 you can construct from the Xuanji Tu! At the very center of the grid, the 8 red characters wrapped around the central heart, she "signed" her poem with a hidden message: 詩圖璇玑，始平蘇氏。 "The poem-picture of the Armillary Sphere, by Su of Shiping." Or reversed: 蘇氏詩圖，璇玑始平。 "Su's poem-picture - the Armillary Sphere begins in peace." Many scholars, and even emperors, throughout Chinese history have been completely obsessed by Su Hui's puzzle. For instance, in the Ming dynasty, a scholar named Kang Wanmin (康萬民) devoted his entire life to the poems (kangshiw.com/contents/461/2…), ending up documenting twelve different reading methods - forward, backward, diagonal, radiating, corner-to-corner, spiraling - and extracting 4,206 poems. His book on the subject ("Reading Methods for the Xuanji Tu Poems", 璇璣圖詩讀法) runs to hundreds of pages. Empress Wu Zetian herself, the legendary woman emperor of the Tang dynasty, wrote a preface to the Xuanji Tu around 692 CE (baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%BB%87…). Incredibly, there's even far more complexity to the Xuanji Tu than just the poems: - The name 璇玑 (Xuanji) - Armillary Sphere - is astronomical in meaning and the way the poems can be read mirrors the way celestial bodies orbit around a fixed center. It's a model of the heavens. - Her original work, with the characters woven on silk brocade, was in five colors (red, black, blue/green, purple, and yellow) which correspond to the Five Elements (五行) - the foundational Chinese philosophical system that explains how the universe operates. So it's also a model of the entire cosmic order according to ancient Chinese philosophy. - It's also of course deeply mathematical with this 29 x 29 perfect square grid, with sub-squares, lines and rectangles, and a structure which allows for symmetrical reading patterns in all directions - Last but not least, the content of the poems themselves contain multiple registers. On top of expressing her personal grief and longing for her husband, it's also filled with accusations against the concubine (Zhao Yangtai) he left her for, reflections on politics (with many references to sage-kings) and philosophical reflections. So the Star Gauge is simultaneously: - A love letter (expressing personal longing) - A legal brief (arguing her case against her rival) - A cosmological model (structured like the heavens) - A Five Element diagram (encoding the fundamental structure of the world according to ancient Chinese philosophy) - A mathematical construction with perfect symmetry and precision And yet, for all this complexity, we should not forget this was all ultimately in service of the simplest human message imaginable: a 21-year-old woman asking the love of her life "come back to me". Her husband did, eventually. According to what empress Wu Zetian herself wrote in her preface to the Xuanji Tu, when he received Su's brocade he was so "moved by its supreme beauty" that he sent away his concubine and returned to his wife. As the story goes, they lived together until old age. The heart at the center was filled after all.

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