Sixian

I think there are NFT sales that function as relationship building...  it’s a way to capture the attention of a popular creator, in a world in which the creator is constantly being bombarded.  It’s a role reversal from the creator just constantly marketing to the consumer.

Browse versus search is a radical increase in the trust we put in link infrastructure, and in the degree of power derived from that link structure.

Entire cultures, ideologies, and schools of thought—the very bedrocks of our societies—are built upon the notion that as one person grows more wise, so can the whole community. However, the idea that knowledge’s evolution happens privately and individually presents us with a problem: how do we manage knowledge and wisdom collectively?

At some point, the erotics of music crossfade into something more onanistic. At its worst, communication equipment becomes a fetish, as when Jodi Dean describes the communicative capitalism of the internet, which, instead of facilitating democracy, becomes its substitute. Counters for likes and retweets are not unlike the specifications sheet for a... See more

These examples suggest that a grand narrative produces a slipstream capable of sustaining cohesion in large societies if it satisfies the following conditions:

1. It produces benefits today 


2. It promises an afterlife where heaven >> hell 


3. There is a consolation prize even if we don’t get to heaven

In practice, most of the valuable insights you will glean from a scaled-up dataset in a particular domain will come early on. More data just confirms those insights. Further, the number of insights that will matter enough for customers to pay you or choose you over other providers is typically small. So data scale can give you these early 1-3 key... See more

we play to continue the game rather than “win” the Internet on any given day, though that’s nice too.

You can physically outlive the period in which explaining things in this way makes sense.