1/ Something I've been thinking about a lot lately: What happens if we democratize the tools of *influence*?
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2/ Social media itself isn't that. Yes, anyone with some combination of time, cleverness, and, often, a lack of morality can grow their reach in the sense of cultivating a following of people who listen to them — but that's mostly computer-mediated homophily, not influence.
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3/ Specifically, I'm referring to the ability to induce (preferably durable) changes in beliefs and not ephemeral opinions. (Although, manipulating complexes of the latter often has that effect by forging Chinese finger trap like cognitive artifacts.)
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4/ I'm a relatively sophisticated user of social media. And, I'm certainly someone who wants to *influence* people. But, I honestly have no idea if I do so. And, I suspect I don't. Again, I think I just help reinforce via homophily.
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5/ So back to the democratization of influence idea, imagine I offered you tools that measure how well you changed hearts and minds. (And ignore how measurement is). What happens?
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6/ My hot take would be you'd have a k-level intentionality problem. "I think you think that I think that I think," regressing to the point where complexity explodes and things get too hard *at scale*.
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7/ But... ...could that where influence gets democratized?
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8/ Obviously there are a lot of obvious and strong counter-arguments to this, but this premise has been stuck in my head for a while now.
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Replying to @generativist
I think your assertion that at some point the measurability breaks down due to nesting is accurate; then you end up reverting to the traditional measure of how influential you are...does your Memetic impact thrive and spread outside of that measure (see: organized religion)
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Yea, the identity is the message, not the murmering expressions.pic.twitter.com/08nlYnaPG6
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