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“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
China’s apps played a pivotal role in supporting some of the most effective tactics the country used in fighting Covid-19, including the use of fever clinics and the strict quarantining of individuals based on their risk level. Apps there exposed a plethora of tools to keep people healthy, well-stocked, and at-ease during the crisis. Chinese tech c... See more
Dan Grover • How Chinese Apps Handled Covid-19
These are all spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments. The cultures of those spaces have more in common with the physical world than the internet.
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
When it's easy to generate content without writing it yourself, then 99% of content will be AI-generated.
Sunday Reads #170: Lemon markets, dark forests, and a firehose of malicious garbage.
The structure of the network matters a great deal here, because you can’t always solve thorny human problems with simple rules. Each writer and creator, and the community that they lead, in effect gets their own social network on Substack. What you see as a reader is determined by the people you subscribe to and the communities you choose
... See moreChris Best • The coming culture peace
This paper proposes policies based on such principles: They are designed to maintain the
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
Beyond an erroneous belief that e-commerce was unprofitable which kept them from investing in e-commerce, brick and mortar retailers struggled online for cultural reasons.
Gavin Baker • Why category leading brick and mortar retailers are likely the biggest long term Covid…
As the treasury grows, more and more ambitious projects that increase the value of Nouns can be undertaken. If those projects succeed, the treasury gets even bigger. For now the ideas are simple, but you could imagine wild projects like designer merch, a private IRL clubhouse, TV shows, theme parks, giant bronze sculptures in every major metropolit... See more
Every • Will DAOs replace Corporations?
What excites me the most about these kinds of projects is that they combine multiple kinds of cutting-edge business models and technologies — digital scarcity, drop culture, blockchain and cryptocurrency — into a direct-to-fan transaction that actually makes real money for the artists involved.