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Ultimately, time is finite, attention is rivalrous, and information is not infinitely actionable. ... added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup https://gi
by contingencies 5y ago
Ultimately, time is finite, attention is rivalrous, and information is not infinitely actionable. ... added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
- dredmorbius 5y agoIncidentally reflecting one of the better mechanisms for information filtering. Party A states some claim / makes an observation. Party B curates that as relevant. This isn't always viable, and can of course be gamed or subject to low-quality curation. But it at least disintermediates interests. The Internet Archive uses a similar mechanism in choosing which YouTube content to archive. It monitors Twitter for YouTube links, and uses that as a filter for curating YouTube content. (Brewster Kahle in an interview or documentary I'd watched / listened to recently. Probably a video as it doesn't seem to be in my podcast episodes index.) Oh, and thanks ;-)
- contingencies 5y agoSure. Teaching and learning through social means was one of the great apes' big achievements. It's why we're dominant. Thus, today I believe it's scientifically non-contentious to view humanity as a single, evolving, temperospatial hive mind accelerating with compounding killer apps of language, literacy, and information systems. Incidentally, try the recent French computer game Ancestors, it's very well executed on this very subject.