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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      Package-Hustle-Pump-Dump loop. PHPD. Not just art. Economy of whole top 2/3 of Maslow pyramid seems to run on it. If you’re not willing to play, you’ll leave 70% of the value of anything you do on the table. It’s the part that comes from signaling value. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/arts/design/black-artists-older-success.html …pic.twitter.com/WWlhlYKrUA

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      The economy is like a deep learning AI in that it cannot “see” or price the part humans find valuable directly. It can only price the metadata so to speak: revealed preference patterns evident in memetic spread. So if you can hack that, you can hack price, demand, and supply.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      There’s just enough people who are clueless/bot-like in that they’ll value things purely on social proof, for the scheme to work. Anything can be tokenized like a crypto token and turned into fodder for this machine, so long as it’s not life-critical bottom-of-Maslow stuff.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      Even then,sometimes signal value can outbid intrinsic value for stuff like water. Securitize, tokenize, PHPD... The invisible hand is also guided by a half-blind eye that can only see things “priced into” memetic spread dynamics. If it can’t be memefied it can’t be priced.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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      I’ve been trying to construct a markets-and-process analogy to James Scott’s legibility-failure model of authoritarian high modernism, and I think this is it. Memetic Network Modernism.

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        2. David Manheim‏ @davidmanheim 24 Mar 2019
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          Have you talked to / pinged David Ronfeldt about the idea? I think he'd be interesting to talk to about it. (He's on Facebook.)

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 24 Mar 2019
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          No, I don’t generally talk about my thinking with anyone till it’s fully baked enough that I don’t have to because it speaks for itself, warts and all🙂

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        2. Slava Balasanov‏ @team_slava 24 Mar 2019
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          This is a great insight. Can observe this in everything from stock market bubbles to irrational startup valuations to new crypto initiatives. Can be framed in terms of speculation vs fundamentals. Failure mode is more likely with opaque, subjective fundamentals.

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        3. Slava Balasanov‏ @team_slava 24 Mar 2019
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          Contemporary art market is an interesting case where fundamentals are very subjective. But they do exist in the form of consensus among institutional curators, so the market prices encode a mix of mimetic dynamics and current curatorial values.

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