I agree with that completely...except I think that articulates only half of the problem. The other part is a profit model that sells human attention. The supply is finite but elastic enough that you can design for a maladaptive increase.
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And the easiest way to do that isn't even obviously manipulative: it's just privileging amplification over attenuation. Even limited to a network of alters like facebook, the system tends towards waves of seizures.
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Yea. A lot of the anti-social network stuff spends a lot of time expressing how there isn't a real distinction between IRL and online like people intuitively think there is but doesn't go far enough to point out our intuition is more of a desire for distinction.
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The uncanny valley is also a boundary of sorts.
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Right. Which (semi-relatedly) explains why Mastodon will fail. It's sorted on something close to class boundaries, such that it's pretty homogeneous. And participating in multiple instances is taxing. And fundamentally, it's a less-slick twitter with a different license.
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Meanwhile, twitter is just the Frankenstein of an IR system, a MMORPGs, and Netflix. Hard to compete against directly, and I'm very actively trying to remind myself that so I don't make such a mistake.
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That's probably the path I'll take. And, if it fails, the woods await.
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I am interested in all prototyping in this space. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter &c
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That's *sorta* where I've been heading. In the whole Simon Designing Organizations for an Information Rich World Thing. There are all sorts of things I would like to delegate to intelligent agents. The trick is finding useful ones.
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So, not every person has the literacy to follow all of the indirections required to use a dynamic, self-managing, homeostatic system for managing human relationships. Most people mistake any given map for a territory. Is it even POSSIBLE to correct for that, while scaling?
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