All this frankly makes me ambivalent about writing in traditional forms like books or essays. It’s increasingly clear that these are a kind of Industrial Age larping.
The thing that keeps me in traditional forms is mostly lack of skills/tools to go beyond, not sentiment 🙂
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Software eats World: digitization and indexing of the world's knowledge / libraries
World eats Software: books are printed to salvage and memorialize parts of the Internet (radioactive trash heap) for future readers
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Noise and fury signifying nothing. Yes he's annoying and loud and temporarily very important in the damage he can do, but ultimately an irrelevancy.
Trash heap or not (I'm definitely in not camp), we're here for good. No going back. Nobody's going to print/memorialize anything
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1. most publishing contracts or first time authors get taken up from the internet now, no? isn't that already what we're talking about? from meme to IRL? 2...
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where is the will for "the internet" to be a disinterested store of knowledge? who benefits? closest thing I can think of is which is truly no alexandria... (which you'll remember burned to the ground)
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We're talking about different things. You're talking about human intent and "good" and "bad" internet futures as though we have a choice about it.
We don't. The internet will do what the internet will do. Our choice is whether we go along or not, and my assertion is 99% will.
everything human-created is fragile; I read it in a book
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*Humans* are fragile, shrug. We just copy and reproduce everything, including ourselves, in newer forms. You take Taleb way too seriously.
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