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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 6
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Dan Hon

      Tech-utopian cycle Year 1: “I will solve discourse conflicts by empowering people with new knowledge tools” Year 5: it’s either dead in water or has created level n+1 discourse conflicts Year 6: “I will solve discourse conflicts by empowering people with new knowledge tools”https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1302667675873587200 …

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      Dan Hon @hondanhon
      Remember when Genius was going to be this massive thing where its collaborative highlighting & notes weren’t going to just change lyrics forever, but maybe also be a force against disinformation?
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 6
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      You can’t solve problems with free expression by improving expressivity of the tools of expression. You have to go reactionary and retreat to older media if you want that. The waldenponders have at least that right. You want a peaceful public sphere, go with stone tablets.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 6
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      The alternative is to accept that mo’ knowledge tools mo’ discourse problems is a good thing. More intractable conflicts but also more powerful upsides in social scaling, coordination, collective intelligence. Neither or both. Can’t have one without the other.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 6
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      All hail the Global Social Computer in the Cloud (GSCITC)https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/against-waldenponding …

      11:16 AM - 6 Sep 2020
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      • purple prose and logic Amir Γνῶθι σεαυτ Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao Stan Miroshnik 🌨 Kate Yemelyanov तुम्हारा, सागर । mesh
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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Sep 6
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          So long as it lowers the death count and helps move off the death-count standard of pain, it’s all good.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1302645240214335488 …

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          Venkatesh Rao @vgr
          The moral economy needs to get off the death-count standard. There are more and worse ways for people to suffer than dying. Fiat pain standard. Yes it can be abused and drive runaway victimhood inflation. But it’s better than death being the only thing recognized as “true pain”
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        1. Basil Marte‏ @BasilMarte Sep 6
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          You have an eschatology there for a religion including transhumanism, an explanation of egregores&stuff (mind projection what-do-you-mean-it's-a-fallacy?) and the thesis that people's self-concept is based on estimated control and/or feedback loops ("my notebook is part of me").

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