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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2018
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      This seems incredibly sad somehow To me it would be a mark of living death

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    2. nicole‏ @nwilliams030 16 Jul 2018
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      WHAT okay how i feel like i'm not accurately expressing the beauty and potential here but explain

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2018
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      90% published research is garbage put out by sad cronyist scholarly communities. Stuff at best worth indexing for broader trends in a PDF dump. You’d be choosing to live in an aestheticized landfill Old books would be slightly less sad: less garbagey, but even more dead.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2018
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      I barely like the sight of my own paper copies of the few papers I’ve published. Tossed most of my physical paper collection (2-3 shelves of 3-ring binders) a few years ago — andvthats filtered and selected stuff. I still have a few hundred digital pdfs in Dropbox.

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    5. nicole‏ @nwilliams030 16 Jul 2018
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      Wow okay - is there any library-type ideal for you then?

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2018
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      We’re in it!

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2018
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      Twitter is genuinely superior as a discovery environment to any library I’ve ever used. You get to be in the middle of a million messy, ornery, grumpy, but living, thinking minds. You are in the gravity field of the actual creative destruction of ideas.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2018
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      At any moment a bunnytail might open up for you that leads to a new Alice-like wonderland. Could be esoteric theoretical physics or some silly ascii art subculture. Or just the one weirdo in the world who knows all about some random shit

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2018
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      Your profile says machine learning. You’re sitting in the best living data set in history and you’re fantasizing about retreating to some sad little dead collection of pseudorandom narrow data 😂

      8:13 PM - 16 Jul 2018
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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Jul 2018
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          Libraries are great don’t get me wrong. But I’d rather know the 1 person who can point me to the one worthwhile paper in a 100 than have all 100 papers but no one pointing me anywhere.

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