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Complexity in Social Networks
We don't just want to take existing maps of social connections as given and find better ways to come to consensus within them. We also want to reform the webs of social connections themselves , and put people closer to other people that are more compatible with them to better allow different ways of life to maintain their own distinctiveness.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
The second wave of social is about having people be more conscious about building a graph that best matches the needs of what they want to get from that graph. Initially, importing from your contact/address book made sense. But now we can say that was a mistake. You don't need to follow all people you know on all services.
Eugene Wei • Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)
Absolutely! The metaphor of technology as “architecture for the mind and society” is a way to visualize how technology functions as more than a tool—it creates environments and frameworks that shape how we think, interact, and organize ourselves. Let’s break it down:
1. Architecture as a Framework
In physical spaces, architecture dictates how people
... See moreWhen there are a lot of neighbours to which a node is connected, then various types of information spreads much faster through the network. This is called network density, how many edges are connected on average to each node. And increased density means that there’s many more routes by which information can spread.
This is why cities have much highe
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