I'm a techy person using an anonymous account because I hold some heretical opinions. I followed you thru "Mimetic Value" and because large-scale human collaboration is also one of my interests. Care about rationalism, HBD, and ability of tech to shape society on emergent scale.
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Replying to @June_beetle
Can you say more about the ability of tech to shape society on emergent scale?
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Replying to @utotranslucence
Classic example is Arab Spring, social media enabling epidemic-like spreading of ideas. Social credit system in China as centralized reputation system to replace local/tribal word of mouth systems that no longer work in big societies. Crypto enabling trustless economic exchange.
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Replying to @June_beetle
How do you think society will change as a result?
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Replying to @utotranslucence
In short term, fracturing, polarization, "neuro-tribalism" (see http://colonyofcommodus.wordpress.com/2018/12/21/neuro-tribalism/ …). In long term, whatever us tech overlords want to design it towards
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Replying to @June_beetle
So your plan is to jump on the winning boat and try to steer?
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Replying to @utotranslucence
Too bad we tech-overlords are ourselves enmeshed in status and power games that inevitably warp our designs beyond recognition as soon as they begin to scale :)
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Replying to @levity @utotranslucence
What's an example of this happening?
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Replying to @June_beetle @utotranslucence
I was being hyperbolic, but ask anyone who was an early employee at Google or Facebook how many of the things they are in the news about these days were intentional.
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Replying to @levity @utotranslucence
The inference that power and status games were involved comes from general observations about the dynamics of human groups.
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Leadership, then, is the skillful management of power and status dynamics so people channel their efforts toward the achievement of shared goals. In its absence we default to Brownian motion
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