For few years, I've had two incessant thoughts: 1. I would like to build social information systems that better allocate human attention; and, 2. I would like to never think about social media again. These thoughts conflict.
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Replying to @generativist
I think they make sense, actually. We just haven’t discovered the optimal lattice to suspend energy (read: attention) in a stable state. Though maybe as humans we shouldn’t. Maybe the stable state is boring or dead.
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Replying to @mykola
Yea, I think that's the problem. There's some Goldilocks zone between totally unstructured and rigidly structured that we haven't found yet.
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Replying to @generativist
My question is: what would be the subjective experience of that state? It feels like stasis, like the end of a process, but maybe that’s wrong?
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Oh, I think the fundamental problem is just that it would be a lot less socially salient. Like twitter will always win because it makes you care deeply about irrelevant shit. I bet great platforms already exist, but they feel like eating your broccoli.
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