Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
Leo Guinan • The Memetic Foundation of Human Value - A New Economic Paradigm
Memetic Foundations of Human Value
The research predicts the need for Sublime
Looking at quantitative vs. qualitative effects: stimulants and simple sedatives primarily cause quantitative changes in timing (people err in one direction on interval tasks, but they generally still understand that time is flowing). Psychedelics, cannabis, and dissociatives often add a qualitative layer – users report that their entire... See more
ChatGPT
From linear time to multidimensional time
They want your time , enough of it to make you theirs, even if they have no use for most of it. Otherwise why hasn’t the average work week gone down by more than a few minutes in the last sixty years?
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
The better we know ourselves, the better we’re able to design systems, technologies, lenses that intentionally empower our lights vs. blindly perpetuate our shadows.”
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
Damn, this hits deep. I love this so much.
The Rise of SNARF
SNARF stands for Stakes/Novelty/Anger/Retention/Fear. SNARF is the kind of content that evolves when a platform asks an AI to maximize usage. Content creators need to please the AI algorithms or they become irrelevant. Millions of creators make SNARF content to stay in the feed and earn a living.
SNARF stands for Stakes/Novelty/Anger/Retention/Fear. SNARF is the kind of content that evolves when a platform asks an AI to maximize usage. Content creators need to please the AI algorithms or they become irrelevant. Millions of creators make SNARF content to stay in the feed and earn a living.
Jonah Peretti • The Anti-SNARF Manifesto
MIWA and
This is one of the battles we are fighting. Kill SNARF with fire.
A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
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This new context makes everyone optimize for collaboration.
Eliot Couvat • What Decentralized Media Means To The Future of Digital Writing
Good use of attention up the chain of society is rewarded. Bad use of it is punished. This system creates “sustainable marketing pathways”, a kind of information highway.
How do we bootstrap the Open Research Institute?
Memetic Foundations of Human Value and Reactions to Defender
The problem with this system is that it can be self-referential and lead to people who are trying to use attention well not being able to capture enough attention to bring resources to fix a large problem. We need better recognition systems instead of self-reporting ones.
Endowment effect
Valuing an object more, only because you possess it.
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We are emotionally attached to things that we own. It makes sense: There’s an emotional investment in having made the decision, in shifting or cementing your identify as “a person who would have this object,” and how you believe that ownership will be perceived by others.... See more
Valuing an object more, only because you possess it.
source
We are emotionally attached to things that we own. It makes sense: There’s an emotional investment in having made the decision, in shifting or cementing your identify as “a person who would have this object,” and how you believe that ownership will be perceived by others.... See more
Jason Cohen • The Serengeti Plain Fallacy: Fallacies that aren't fallacies
This shows how value is an individual quality. In order to purchase something, you have to value it at or above the price.