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The global consciousness thing stems from the neural-net like search features of Twitter. You find unexpected and real-time updates on any subject imaginable. O
by legrande 4y ago
The global consciousness thing stems from the neural-net like search features of Twitter. You find unexpected and real-time updates on any subject imaginable. Often a Google or DuckDuckGo search query is no match for Twitter's search feature.
It's the closest thing to hacking the world's hive-mind, however cobbled together it is. IMHO the more people that use it the better. We can create a sort of better noosphere[0] than the current one.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere
- hn_throwaway_99 4y ago"neural-net like search features of Twitter"?? "It's the closest thing to hacking the world's hive-mind"??? Puh-leese. While I personally don't find much use for Twitter, I don't hate it, but this "global consciousness" nonsense is just marketing babble.
- mjr00 4y agoIt's really a reflection of what Twitter is actually great at: surfacing things that you're already interested in. If you're the type of person who interacts with a lot of political things on Twitter, it's going to surface things that will make you engage, which is hot political takes. So it makes you believe that you are part of this global consciousness, despite it really being just tens of thousands of people engaging with each other circularly. Personally I have locked down my Twitter to only be about music and anime and it's really, really good at surfacing new art and new music that I enjoy. I have never seen a political take on my personal Twitter feed.