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"By the end of these conversations, several participants seemed to realize that they may never see their conversation partner again, and had to say their bittersweet goodbyes."

https://pudding.cool/2025/06/hello-stranger/

Data: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf3197

#data #dataviz #DataVisualization #strangers #conversation

The Pudding

30 minutes with a stranger

Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change

Warm Signull

@warmsignull@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

@hamishcampbell (2/9)
So far I got the feeling that you have either completly rejected somewhat #traditional-funding , or maybe it didn't happen due to #tone . Many #projects closed due to lack of #funding look like a #symptom of this. As someone who would love to fully dedicate myself to the #goals that I am truly #passion ate for, but still likes to eat and at the same time has feelings of opposition to some possible #solutions , I highly #empathize with it.
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Warm Signull

@warmsignull@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

@hamishcampbell (3/9)
Would you mind to #elaborate further?

So you had plenty of #arguments about this, but I am wondering if you had a #conversation worded this way:

You have had many years to think about everything, so I #imagine that there is a #justification to why it was not worth it for you #personally to adjust the #tone slightly to be able to #attract more people to it?
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Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 3 months ago

What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/

#HackerNews #CIA #ParisReview #Conversation #LanceRichardson #Mystery

The Paris Review

What Really Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?: A Conversation with Lance Richardson by Dan Piepenbring

November 11, 2025 – “In a funny way, it was really the fact that writing is far too solitudinous an activity that gave us The Paris Review. Along with the CIA, of course.”

Coach Pāṇini ®

@paninid@mastodon.world · 6 months ago

“Solviture ambulando, it is solved by #walking, is the only fitting response to some queries, yet no LLM can provide answers of this type.”

#SolvitureAmbulando

Coach Pāṇini ®

@paninid@mastodon.world · 6 months ago

“Interacting with #LLMs trains us to expect pre-formed answers from the void rather than endure the #productive effort of #conversation – literally, turning back and forth with another person in pursuit of #truth.”

Stefan Bohacek

@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 8 months ago

A nice visual exploration of 1,656 conversations: 7+ million words, 850 hours.