new blog post about
• why i think rationalists only killed a straw-man conception of God
• the gods of 2019: Moloch, the Singularity, Uruk, egregores, etc. — and what they can teach us
• my journey thru Evangelical Christianity, rationalism, & beyond
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Interesting that you went large-scale in search of new gods. I'd probably have gone micro and made up an ant-swarm of a 100 little gods rather than 7 big ones. From ribbonfarm: god of pettiness god of rectangles (sarah), god of 2x2s, slightly evil demon, god of mediocrity (me)
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small gods and hyper-targeted messaging — same energy?
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The *ideal* distribution/reach pattern for that idea is the one that reaches those 5, and only those 5 people, at the lowest joules/bit/mile cost. Anything more is waste. That's a sort of thermodynamic efficiency limit model for media. Kinda like Carnot cycle for engines.
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fwiw, i’m not sure i went searching for new gods. the Algorithms delivered them to me 😂
i didn’t fully appreciate the god of mediocrity until i learned the limits of going large-scale the hard way
excited to check out the Small Gods book, thanks for the rec
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