Speakers in the public record
Claim mix
belief 18evaluation 6uncertainty 2prediction 2commitment 1preference 1recommendation 1
Evidence policy
Every row below preserves an exact excerpt. Identified speakers are linked; unresolved voices are labeled and excluded from people counts.
Claim ledger
The useful parts, with receipts.
31 published records
“One other thing that was, I think, nice to see working then was, one criticism of Community Notes some people bring up is, well if you always need agreement from people who typically disagree, then in these super polarized settings, that conflict being probably number one, then you wouldn't see any notes.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Whatever is going to produce the best outcome is what we should do. So I think I feel more attached to the product being helpful than to anything else, and so to whatever degree it might seem like low ego is probably more a result of wanting to actually solve the problem.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“There's this talk for a while of just there's no more facts, nobody believes there is a single true fact anymore, everything is subjective, and I think Community Notes proves the opposite.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think even though there was original research before Birdwatch had even started, or Community Notes had even started, from external researchers showing that crowdsourced fact-checkers, laypeople can do about as well as fact-checkers and actually the agreement rates were kind of similar between the groups.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think often before Community Notes you could have just been living in a little news filter bubble, or maybe there were fact checks out there that you should have been reading but you weren't discovering them.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think all of the same aspects of recruiting that apply to external startups and apply internally, and if you can have an exciting vision, that is key.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I don't know that the project would be here if it was not for some of those elements.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I want to start with just giving people a brief understanding of what is Community Notes. I think a lot of people kind of heard about it, kind of maybe see it on X.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“There's a community moderation aspect, so I think we also thought that this would be specifically for adding context to misleading or potentially misleading information, but what you can see is that there are some notes that go beyond that towards calling out content that they think is spammy or something.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think that shrinking is actually a big reason for the increased pace of launches, the increased pace of experimentation.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think we had done a lot of good work getting momentum going, and people in the us and in the industry had tried things to deal with misleading information, but nothing was really working.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think the opt in is important, and it may even be that you want to opt in at one point in your life, and maybe at another point in your life something else is better.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think that's another great example, OKRs, I understand why they can be helpful, but they can also be not necessarily the right cadence at which to set goals.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think Keith and I both believe that we live or die based on the quality of the notes at the end of the day.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Related to that and your list, Lenny, one thing we missed that's super important is that on this project, and I think of successful projects like it in startups, is that people are self-selecting to join.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Something on my mind, and I don't know if you guys want to go here, but it's something I think a lot of people think about is when Elon came in, he let go of 80% of folks.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“Vitalik Buterin had a blog post where he talks about his explorations, making sure the algorithm really does what it says it does. And I think just the fact that a handful of people have done this, there's enough people who have done it that there's someone you'd probably trust who's verified it.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think there's a lot there that a lot of people think they should do when they set these teams up, but they don't actually do, and it feels like each of these is just a really key ingredient to it to actually succeeding.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think you may have shared with this with me, when someone noticed you guys were testing this and they took screenshots and tweeted it, and I think Elon replied, "This is cool.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“What I think about, you shared this with me, this example of a picture with a cat and somebody's Community Note was just, "That's a dog.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I would also say there is this reputation component to the algorithm as well. So if you consistently rate notes in a way that is counter to the bridging-based consensus, then we will stop counting your ratings.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think back in 2020 before we started building anything here, whether this could work at all, I think a room of ML engineers would say, "Oh, you have to keep it closed source.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I will say that I think people were sort of open-minded to it, generally speaking, and I think everyone had a sense that what was being done at the time wasn't really working that well or solving the problem, and people were open to new ideas, so that's a good foundation.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think people have shifted from I trust what I read to, okay, I shouldn't just believe everything I'm reading.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I don't know, for people out there who typically run A-B tests on big platforms, you may already be familiar with this, but 1% is typically an awesome effect size for any algorithm change.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“The other approach is even if you had 10,000 people doing it, the real issue is that they don't work that well because they're not trusted or they don't scale or they're too slow.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I've never seen a Community Note that is wrong and breaking that promise is a big deal.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“One distinction that I would make, which maybe can come off as nitpicky but I think is important, is Community Notes adds additional context.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think the point you made about people opting into that is important, 'cause I think a lot of people hearing that would be like, "I would never want to be asked to build something like that in two weeks.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“The classic career path is, I don't know, rewards or running a large organization or being a manager, or things like that, but I think, at the end of the day, you got to work on stuff you love, you got to be having fun, and I think people want to be having impact.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
“I think one other thing that's key is when you are forced to have such a small team, well, this is important anyways, but deleting code is more important than writing it a lot of the time. So I think so often maybe due to promotion incentives or just regular human tendency, engineers have a tendency to add these little incremental wins that actually add more of a long-term maintenance cost than is clear, because you just run a little one month A-B test, you see this significant win and you don't realize the maintenance burden you just added to your team for the rest of eternity until you turn the thing off.”
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast