Community Notes
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Community Notes is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between September 18, 2023 and January 17, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “claim that Community Notes wasn’t really a Musk project”; “Asterisk: The Making Of Community Notes . Describes the thought processes of the designers of Twitter/X Community Notes”. It most often appears alongside America, Ashlee Vance, China.
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- Category: Events
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: September 18, 2023
- Last seen: January 17, 2025
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- Ashlee Vance (2 shared issues)
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Elon Musk (2 shared issues)
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- Gwern (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- Uber (2 shared issues)
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- 787 (1 shared issues)
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- @tamaybes (1 shared issues)
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- @venturetwins (1 shared issues)
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- A16Z (1 shared issues)
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- adderallposting (1 shared issues)
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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.
Community Notes existed before Musk and I don’t think he’s improved it in any meaningful way. He did change its name from Birdwatch . . . It was in beta when he bought it. Or it had just been rolled out or was in the process of being rolled out.
My strongest update was shifting my estimate of Musk’s success at Twitter downward based on other people’s descriptions of worse experiences with the site, the “maintaining an alliance with the elite blob is a key part of Twitter’s business which it’s legitimate to spend 80% of its workforce on” argument, and the claim (still not proven, but plausible) that Community Notes wasn’t really a Musk project.
27: Asterisk: The Making Of Community Notes. Describes the thought processes of the designers of Twitter/X Community Notes; I was most impressed by how much they bent over backwards to avoid any framing resembling “misinformation” based on data showing that this would make people view their work as partisan and trust it less.
Inline links: The Making Of Community Notes