> At least, that's what I deluded myself into believing. The truth is something far worse happened: the maps got filled in and I mistook them for the complete territory. They are not. They never were. They mustn’t ever be.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1255591295327690752 …
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> This has been a lot of been abstraction and aphorism, so let me try to be more concrete and specific: I think the great force of future's diversion was cloud computing.
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> Cloud computing — especially when coupled with ad-supported business models — selects for particular data flow patterns; and, in turn, those data flow patterns select for particular computations.
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> [W]e failed to maintain peer-to-peer as the primary conduit. This matters because how we interact selects for what we perceive. More than that, computation itself is a medium. Hell, it’s THE medium.
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i still think search engines could emergent complexity their way to sentience <3
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