Astral Codex Ten

Android

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Android

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Android is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 13, 2023 and November 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Also on their list were Facebook ads and the Android”; “one of the tools which lets you build native apps for iPhone and Android”. It most often appears alongside Twitter, EEGManyLabs, 23andme.

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  • Category: Brands
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: September 13, 2023
  • Last seen: November 10, 2023

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Book Review: Elon Musk
September 13, 2023 · Original source
This book taught me that everyone always predicts Elon will fail at whatever he does. When he started the original X (later PayPal), everyone who knew anything about finance told him he would fail. Just because he was a hotshot coder who could write software didn’t mean he could navigate the totally-different and heavily-regulated world of finance. Elon, who started out indeed knowing nothing about finance, learned on the job and got a $200 million exit. Gawker voted Tesla #1 in their Biggest Tech Flops of 2007 (also on their list were Facebook ads and the Android . . . maybe journalists don’t actually understand tech?)
Followup: Quests And Requests
November 10, 2023 · Original source
This is a pure-front-end-web-app with all the sentences hard-coded. I don't see any issue with getting accurate timing: the timing could be done client side (as others have said) and I really think even a web-app like this would be high-fidelity enough for human-scale interactions. The only issue is security. I don't think you could make a web-app that's secure against someone cheating if they really wanted to. If we're measuring biases people might be trying to hide, this would be an issue. The solution would be to make a native app of some sort. I'd probably use one of the tools which lets you build native apps for iPhone and Android.