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Because information technology has undermined the capacity of centralized authority to project power and provide physical security for systems that operate at a large scale, the optimal size of almost every enterprise in the “natural economy” is falling. To respond to this technological change will entail a massive investment requirement (read
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
But the catch was that this was never a sustainable long-term strategy, at least not for the purposes of promoting an open ecosystem. User-generated data is vulnerable to a family of sub optimizations such as Goodhart’s Law, in which using a “measure” as a “metric” devalues the measure itself. If you’re Google building PageRank on natural weblinks... See more
Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood
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Paul Sturrock • 2 cards
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The biggest risk to Substack isn’t that Gmail changes its algorithm or that readers set up automatic forwarding and share accounts. It’s that years from now, each author will have built up so much content that a reader can pay a 1 month subscription, download the archive, and be set on reading material.
Applied Divinity Studies • [Guest post] How Substack Became Milquetoast
on sci-fi, the future & AI, via Cory Doctorow h/t Matt Klein… | Nick Susi
Cory Doctorowlinkedin.com
My one-liner on this is 2000s were the tech companies, 2010s: crypto protocols, 2020s: startup cities, 2030s: network states.
Shaan Puri • #178 with Balaji - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto
- The article argues that the concept of "entity thinking" from traditional centralized structures is being imported into web3 and causing the recreation of these structures in the form of DAOs.