blaineJan 19, 2023

I've been reading and re-reading @robin's post, "The Internet Transition," for days now, and it's stupendous.

It matches and extends every intuition I've had about this new world we're in, and puts it all to words in a seemingly effortless way. I know how much effort it took, because it's the post I've always wished I could have written on the topic. Anyone who cares about governance or structures in our complicated new world should absolutely give it a go.

https://berjon.com/internet-transition/#fn-12

The Internet Transition

The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.

Robin Berjon
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@blaine @robin

The idea of a punctuated equilibrium in organic intelligence and complexity … our planet being right in the middle of a Big Ol’ :exclamationmark: … it’s one I’ve entertained on my own, imagining I might have somehow noticed a pattern that nobody else was talking about.

And now I’m finding more and more people who appear to have arrived at a similar theory, similarly “independently”-ish, and we’re all more or less contemporaries.

I’m feeling like my mind is connecting with some Big Cyborg Energy here.

Jan 19, 2023 at 8:27amWeb
Show threadWordsRWeaponsJan 19, 2023

@Cmdrmoto @blaine @robin truth predicts the future. It stands to reason that the more accurate an idea is, the more likely there will independent replication of the idea in other forms.

For me I have been thinking about this topic in regards to how information online is organized, and how it might be better chunked and monetized to change the way individuals relate to that information. And complexity, in my view, is key to applying a technological solution.

Show threadMoto Jan 19, 2023

@wordsrweapons @blaine @robin as much as the idea of “monetizing information” leads me to instinctively cringe, I agree that there oughta be *some sort of currency* which can be credited towards accurate information, and debited from falsehoods.

Whether or not that currency resembles “money” - at least in the ways we presently think about “money” - remains an open question.

Show threadWordsRWeaponsJan 19, 2023

@Cmdrmoto @blaine @robin oh absolutely. The only reason I think that monetization is necessary is because I don't see a way to get such an infrastructure implemented en masse without being able to interact with the current dominance of capitalism.

Right now information is being monetized based primarily around popularity, with credibility being one factor out of many which determines relative popularity. But credibility should be a different goal entirely, and is arguably more valuable.