Social filtering protip: you can trust people to tell you what's relevant, but not what's important. Importance is negotiated, not guessed.
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@sebinsua That shared narrative has to be negotiated continuously as information flows.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sebinsua Something is relevant if it has *potential* importance based on pure empirics. Google can judge relevance w/o shared narrative.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@vgr I might say that something is important because it has the potential to be important, too? Later on it might lose that status.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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@sebinsua To me that's dilution-by-metaness. Potential importance is qualitatively different. Potential = probability, not voltage.
12:32 PM - 9 Oct 2014
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