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But don't let impatience cause you to reduce the number of minutes you go with—the best ideas often come when we are getting bored or feeling a little friction.

That sounds like it could be a bit self-coercive at times.

Some of those ideas would suck, but some of them would probably be a lot more useful and interesting than whatever I would’ve done otherwise that week if I didn’t spend 5 minutes exclusively thinking about it.

Should it say ‘hadn’t spent’ rather than “didn’t spend”? Or ‘would do … if I didn’t’.

I also found Nate Soares blogposts talking about using this approach (I’m guessing the Neel Nanda article was at least partly inspired by Nate Soares):

In 'Obvious advice', Nate Soares writes:

You have two consecutive colons there. Maybe you meant to merge those two parts?

Fixed as of 9ea99f9.

Should be fixed as of 9ea99f9 but let me know if you’re still having issues.

Done as of af4e814. There’s now a default wall tab and an activity tab. The wall only shows posts made specifically to the profile. That means posts by the user and others to that profile, and the user’s reposts from anywhere. Version chains are collapsed into the most recent version.

Using https://haptics.lochie.me/ by lochie, mobile devices now give haptic error feedback when exceeding the limit.

I love obsessing over small details like this one.

Nice bio:

A life aimed at infinity 🦉 🐚 🕯️ 🚀

I’m guessing:

🦉 = wisdom
🕯️ = enlightenment
🚀 = progress

But I wonder what the seashell means… 🤔

… the posts are lost amongst the other user activity.

To be clear, when you say “posts”, you mean specifically ideas the user posted only to their profile, outside of discussions?

What about reposts from discussions?

Can there be such a thing as too much fun?
Can there be such a thing as too much profit?

In both cases, I think ‘no’. And I wonder if the fear of ‘too much’ fun and ‘too much’ profit is fundamentally the same thing.

Like, when parents worry that their kids are having too much fun, and when socialists are suspicious of companies turning a profit… is that an expression of the same fear?

Maybe the role of profit in the economy is the same as that of fun in a single mind: it signals successful discovery of common preferences.

One small improvement I’m especially proud of is the new character counter for the user bio. When the bio gets too long, the counter turns red and wiggles (bottom right):

This was a big week for Veritula. Users can now:

• ✍️ Post ideas to their own profile, and others’ profiles, outside of discussions. (Beta)
• 🔄 Repost ideas.
• 🙋‍♂️ Set a profile description under Settings. Tell others about yourself!
• 💻 Embed discussions on third-party sites. Similar feature to Disqus and Giscus. Ideal for comments on blogs, say. See the embed code under Settings. (Early beta)
• 🌉 Show images while preserving viewers’ privacy.¹

Embed discussions on third-party sites.

Dirk is already rocking an embedded discussion on his blog: https://www.dirkswebsite.nl/blog/bedrock/

In beta as of bb324b9.

Embedded Discussions

Starting Feb 28th, 2026, Veritula supports embedded discussions. Use them to add comments and criticism chains to third-party websites.

Say you want to add a commenting feature to your blog. Head over to Settings, section ‘Embed comments’, and copy the shown snippet. It’ll look something like this:

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<script
  type="text/javascript"
  src="https://veritula.com/embed.js"
  data-public-user-id="<populated for you>"
  data-url="<replace>">
</script>

Replace the data-url value with a canonical URL of the page where you want to show comments. Then paste the snippet on that page.

Comments posted in an embedded discussion will appear both in the embed and on Veritula.

This feature is in early beta.

If I mute a discussion, does that stop me from getting notifications from the people I follow, when they interact with that discussion?

Yes.

As a rule of thumb, specificity beats generality. For example, if you follow someone but mute a discussion, you won’t be notified of their posts in that discussion. But if you then subscribe to a specific thread in that muted discussion, you will get notifications for that thread.

There are exceptions. If you mute someone, you’ll never be notified of their actions, no matter how specific.

Also, did you know you can follow people? Click the bell icon when you visit someone’s profile.

Try appending /latest to the link. I still need to expose this feature somehow, but you can use that in the meantime.

Example: https://veritula.com/ideas/4421-5-minute-creativity-tl-dr-when-making-a/latest

But having a separate model isn’t exactly keeping things simple either.

Extend the existing Discussion model to have a nullable embed_url. An embedded discussion would not have a title.

That would prevent existing discussions from being embedded on other sites. But why prevent that?

That would mean people couldn’t programmatically use embed codes, like on their blogs. They would always have to manually go into V and create a discussion first.

Option 2: an embed code is shown on your profile, with a page-url attribute you fill in. That’s the page where you place the code. The first time someone posts a comment, the associated discussion is created. Instead of a title, the discussion gets assigned the URL. That way, people seeing the discussion on V can open the URL for context.

You could use your own definition of justificationism that equates it to foundationalism. But then you’d want to explain that choice.

Regardless, we’re getting too bogged down on terms. I think at this point it would be easier for you to just change your article so it either uses established terms with their accepted definitions or explains departures from them.

No, I’m saying the model you’re using claims they’re the same thing, contrary to your prior agreement in #4392. They’re still not actually the same thing, see #4387.