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Ie a local circle drawn on “shitpost tweets planet” should contain people who are geographically close too, but otherwise locations could mean anything, within mapping limits. 🤔
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This might actually be the best way to do digital real estate. Not like Linden Labs approach. Topological logic based on “proof of proximity” derived from physical earth. Artworks anchor uniqueness via location rather than directly. There may be a million jpegs but with (x, y)
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If such a network started and somehow mapped earth coordinates to solar system locations with some freedom, with progressive lock-in, early adopters from LA could choose to set up base on Ceres the asteroid and drag LA there. How could the math work? 🤔
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This is an interesting topology problem with limited tearing allowed (the way world map projections like Mercator work... basically an orange peel problem). More freedom than strict projection though. You don’t need shape or distance preserving almost everywhere.
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There may be an actual patentable technical idea here. If so, I hereby public-domain it 🤣 Let’s see if I can lay out highlights.
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1. Every unique content item must be content-addressable and associated with a physical geolocation signed with a private key by the author or rights holder. This tag expires and must be reset periodically or the content piece becomes invalid on the “terroir network”
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2. The rights holder may use the location to define access rights for other locations. 3. Every location is mapped 1:1 to a topologically equivalent location on a virtual world, which could be a mirror earth or something else topologically compatible.
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4. Every new item added to the world must conform to the topology created by previous items, and will constrain the topological freedom of future items, creating a progressively locked-in virtual geography that’s approximately isomorphic to earth.
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5. The progressive lock-in must preserve distance order relationships almost everywhere except along pre-defined global “tear” boundaries, but need not preserve actual distances or angles or areas. 6. The world itself must be uniquely identifiable by its tears/singularities.
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This is trivial for any single planet or asteroid. You could also do a set of planets (glue them n-pole-to-s-pole like a string of beads, in order of mean distance from sun, and each join would be a singular latitude on the earth map where the distance metric is discontinuous)
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This is no longer an NFT thread. It’s a virtual worlds thread with room for NFT-like inclusions as a natural consequence of proof-of-proximity geographies.
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Moar NFT jokes
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New zen metaphor! An NFT is like a finger pointing to the moon. Except, and this is the potentially kinda clever bit, it is a specific finger, the finger of the author. In this case, the moon god. Kim Jong-Un was minting NFTs before they were cool btw. kimjongunpointingatthings.tumblr.com
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