10-1a5 Digitizing history means explaining each fork as contingent points (the could've been) for the history around an idea. History is the Idea Maze, and must be created symbolically (never non-digitally nor indexically) by the individuals.

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• 10-1a6 History is the analysis of the log files

Related:

• 10-1 Thick descripting history — other configurations — ‘contingent others’ — 【別様の可能性】

• 9-4b2a1b Build the Idea Maze - Explain the history around an idea, and why yours is a good one. Virtually render the history of the evolution of that idea.

• 9-4b2a1c The moment you write about any societal problem in depth you’ll find yourself writing a history of that problem

• 10-2g2c1 Symbols are universal. Being arbitrary and contingent means it can represent anything, and do everything.

• 2-1a6c0 If you don’t create an explanation, you will be enmeshed in the situation (analog). You have to transcend your situation-culture-parochiality by explanations (digital). Explanation is the way to universality.

• 4-1a4b2b Being reactive is like being analog in the heat of the moment

• 6-3b3a Networks with billions of owners are possible

  • Dan Romero on the state of social networks (Farcaster): It’s like we’re back to 2008, back when Twitter was still open protocol, but with different option - blockchain technology - available.

• 10-1b4c ミメシス is analog-indexical, パロディア is digital-iconical, アナロギア is digital-symbolicaldevelop

• 10-2g3d1.1 Humans create their own cause

• 10-2g3d1.2 There is no objective history—the past can be recreated and reinterpreted

• 1-2i Brandolini’s Law (the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle)—the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it

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Otherwise you’ll just fatten the average. And LLMs can accelerate the adoption of such average output by the masses. This is concerning because we should be concerned with solving real problems, and real problems are rarely solved using the average. You have to think harder with LLMs.

Related:

• 2-1a2 See clearly - 解像度を高める
• 3-1c1d0a Zipf’s law distribution = Passive consumption make up 99% of activities on the internet, and less than 1% even comment on content, and much less than THAT actually create something new
• 7-1a2a You will be solving universal problems by attending to local-parochial problems first