12-1c Open source means more composability means more digitizeable and measurables

12-1d Flexible media will surface contingency

• E.g., visually limit order booking sentiment and opinions (providing market-depth to opinions)
  • Possible with open state blockchain
    • Not possible with Twitter
    • Or with legacy media (incl govt) prone to distortion [Shadow-statistics]
      • NYT distorted best selling data
      • Google results are somewhat better but still manipulation-prone
        • Know what to measure. Google Analytics is provided by Google. Know their incentives.
      • China’s COVID death figures
      • SF crime rate
      • US inflation
      • Soviet’s report on harvest in Ukraine
        Communism requires more lies
        1-2f1b6 Volatility is good for insurgents (idiosyncratic disruptors) and bad for incumbents (legacy institutions)
  • Think of Unix-to-Linux transition
    • Composability
      [RWO Ch. 7 on Composability]
      1-2f1b2 Composability allows incremental piecemeal error-correction
  • The Overton window
    • An approach to identifying the ideas that define the spectrum of acceptability of governmental policies

5-2 What counts cannot be counted

• 5-1b1a2c0.2 Analogue information (e.g., tones of voice, EQ) cannot be perfectly-exhaustively represented by digital systems (e.g., universal writing systems)develop
• 3-1a4b4 Not everything are priced yet, 3-1a4b5 Anything can be priced in principle. But not everything will be.
  • 2-1a0c1i Every polity will be publicly traded eventually just like companies and coins