Tract

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Tract is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 10, 2023 and April 01, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “I’m the cofounder of Tract , a startup trying to make it easier to reason about planning risk”; “The Tract team is in the Bay this month”. It most often appears alongside Twitter, UK, EEGManyLabs.

Metadata

• Category: Organizations
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: November 10, 2023
• Last seen: April 01, 2024

Appears In

• Followup: Quests And Requests
• Open Thread 323

Related Pages

• • Twitter (2 shared issues)
• • UK (2 shared issues)
• • EEGManyLabs (1 shared issues)
• • 23andme (1 shared issues)
• • @freeshreeda (1 shared issues)
• • @surcomplicated (1 shared issues)
• • Alain Daigle (1 shared issues)
• • Albanese government (1 shared issues)
• • alpha waves (1 shared issues)
• • alphagrue (1 shared issues)
• • Alyssa (1 shared issues)
• • Andrew X Stewart (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://academic.oup.com/jrsssa/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jrsssa/qnad139/7557954
• • https://academic.oup.com/jrsssa/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jrsssa/qnae021/7632556
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/elk-and-the-problem-of-truthful-ai
• • https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-216/comment/5641206?s=w
• • https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2022/12/the-human-brain-builds-structures-in-11.html
• • https://buildwithtract.com/
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract
• • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contract#Dominant_assurance_contracts

Source Context

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.

Followup: Quests And Requests

November 10, 2023 · Original source

You'd really want to get an architect and building contractor on board ASAP, and probably also a land use attorney, since I'm a landscape and land planning professional and not an architecture expert. But I might be able to help you get started.

I'm the cofounder of Tract, a startup trying to make it easier to reason about planning risk. One of the things I'd like to prototype, and which might dovetail rather nicely with §7, is a modern approach to visual preferences survey: a 'Tinder for buildings', somewhere local communities can vote on and discuss various architectural styles. We can use generative AI methods to slot new facades into existing streetscapes, analyse the data, and see if we can find meaningful clusters that pin down quantitively what a 'local vernacular' actually consists of.

Inline links: Tract

Haha, no, that would never get traction.

Open Thread 323

April 01, 2024 · Original source

The Tract team is in the Bay this month and looking to connect with “YIMBY angel investors who are interested in tech solutions to vetocracy” as well as YIMBY campaigners, urban planners, and zoning nerds. If that’s you, contact them at jamie[at]buildwithtract[dot]com

Inline links: Tract

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• Followup: Quests And Requests
• Open Thread 323
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