I would suppose your eye is actually turned toward people even-worse-off than my Opioid-addicted family (read: this is a joke), but that would be supposing a thing about you I don't actually know (because I don't actually know you)
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Replying to @spiderfoods @visakanv
I mean what's plutocratic about making a home on the internet. Blogs or other presences are cheap to build. Online community stuff mainly subs for tv or sports. Anyone can do it. I don't get why wealth is a variable here.
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Having a "highly curated social graph", dense enough to need only small # of people to provide you situational awareness of important topics, is definitely a strong modern form of wealth. If Twitter shuts down, you could contact ~70 people through vgr@ribbonfarm.com or whatever.
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You actually built this graph w/ decade+ of hard work, but it is wealth nonetheless, one that smart people would probably pay *huge* $$$ for.
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See this thread and subthread exchange with Karim Lakhani and Rem Koning. Network wealth is not trivial but it IS overrated.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/924304520305197056?s=17 …
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Check your privilege, lol.
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Replying to @spiderfoods @vgr
I'm aware of broke teenage kids in SG who have impressive networks via a mix of Instagram, Tumblr, Tinyletters, etc – better than anything I had at their age – and they're actually doing stuff with it, coordinating events & such. Enterprising, alert bunch. See also: Black Twitter
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(I'm sorry if the people in your life/world/experience don't fit this sort of profile; I'm just giving you context for why we might not be seeing things the same way.)
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It's good that a lot of our disagreements boil down to "oh, we're just talking about different people". I have not fully forsaken 100% of my 26-year-long IRL social graph to join the Web Singularity Futurist Only Movement (strawman, but honestly what alternative seems like)
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My reality isn't really anywhere close to either of those things. My social graph has always been abt 25% random misfits & outcasts (who get 80% of my attention). I have weak ties with lots of people and cultivate stronger ties with the interesting+kind ones. No serious futurists
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I think he's mistaking you for part of the lesswrong/rationalist crowd :D
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I was making a silly strongman to demonstrate The View From John Henry. But yes, a lot of people with secure digital sovereignty actually have Ideologies Included, I think you two are the rare ones that don't.
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