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Not sure this accounts for the fact that social networks, unlike galaxies or the universe can be folded and reconstituted at will. If you think of it like makin
by supernumerary 10y ago
Not sure this accounts for the fact that social networks, unlike galaxies or the universe can be folded and reconstituted at will. If you think of it like making a pizza, you spin the dough and as it spins it will eventually break apart (mySpace, Tumblr, your-favorite-forum-of-yore) but you can always fold it back over itself. In this metaphor, Facebook's introduction of new features and its acquisition of Instagram, WhatsApp and forthcoming VR (in a way its own universe, without any natural law like entropy) represent folding - reconstitutions and renewals. I suppose we can conclude that if entropy represents a fundamental part of natural law applicable to social networks, our technology will try to negate and dominate it. At the very least and assuming the thesis of the paper to hold true we can say, Social Networks are doing something about it.
- trhway 10y ago>without any natural law like entropy whenever there is gradient between [energy] potentials the things would move along it to neutralize the difference - that is the entropy law at work, nothing happens without it. Folding back, reconstitution, renewal - it is all requires expending energy, ie. entropy increase. > if entropy represents a fundamental part of natural law applicable to social networks, our technology will try to negate and dominate it. our technology is just a tool of ours. Being live organisms we follow the main principle (stemming from the 2nd law) what the life is built upon - negating and dominating entropy in some small volume of spacetime by using energy obtained by increasing entropy in some other volume of spacetime by even larger amount than the energy extracted and the entropy dominated/negated. Technology just allows to amplify that process.
- supernumerary 10y agoHey thanks, this is an awesome reply and I appreciate it.