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There’s orders of magnitude more information freely available to everybody today, to inform even the most trivial decisions, than even the top intelligence analysts had for the most crucial decisions 60y ago. Yet we act surprised that armies of sensemakers are cropping up.
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Supply and demand tend to balance out one way or another via new economic activities long before the activities get monetarily mapped and valued/priced adequately. The real economy is always much bigger than the monetarily transacted economy in an innovating society.
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All the shitposting we do on twitter, reddit and blogs etc is economic activity whether or not money changes hands. And money does change hands... in wild, chaotic ways via random viral effects funneling attention to soundcloud etc. An unfair black swan chaos market of attention.
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Expectations we bring to this market are somewhere past the far end of the deterministic-to-lottery spectrum. The game is illegible, not like slots or blackjack where you know the odds and can expect to win sometimes with or without skill. Hyper-lottery?
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I find work feels like work, conventional play feels like play, and casino gambling feels like deathly tedium, not “fun.” Attention economy activity in the hyper-lottery tends to feel like an unpredictable mix of all 3.
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It’s fine-grained but unconscious. Even a single tweet might feel like 25% work, 45% play, and 30% casino death-tedium. You won’t know till after you hit send.
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