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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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    we may have arrived in an era of permanent fake news, with no possibility of authoritative common ground on anything how do you adapt to/survive in such an info environment?

    1:14 PM - 5 Mar 2018
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      2. Isaac M. Morehouse‏ @isaacmorehouse 5 Mar 2018
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        Or we are now unavoidably aware of a condition that has always existed.

        1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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        Nope. Internet didn’t exist before. It’s a comforting false rationalization to think things haven’t really changed.

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      2. Way‏ @wayspurrchen 5 Mar 2018
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        live in a space of semi-permanent quantum information uncollapse; never decide on anything unknowable or unactionable; rely on intuition or insanity for choices that demand action

        2 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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        This is what they want. It sounds cool but is basically incapacitation on most fronts

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      2. Jim Ryan‏ @JamesEmmettRyan 5 Mar 2018
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        Survival on intellectual terms means resisting the idea of “news” as a pathway to “authoritative common ground.” Kind of like asking “which music is best” and then insisting that “best” must be current Top 40.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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        News is necessary but not sufficient Without it intellectual life is reduced to math and philosophy

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      2. Brian Duffy‏ @brianduffytweet 5 Mar 2018
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        Collectively owned, peer-to-peer, open-source panopticon. Ultra-Wikileaks. Full transparency of all government and business affairs. All games played with all the cards visible to all the players. A world without secrets.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 5 Mar 2018
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        Call me when you’ve demonstrated it functioning at any meaningful scale 😆

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      2. ∀rvin‏ @arvinja 5 Mar 2018
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        retreat to the local sphere

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        (after reading your other related tweets I hereby disavow this response, in fact, it was never endorsed to begin with, and probably posted by someone other than me)

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