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Neal Stephenson • Reamde
as humans, we take all of the big challenges of real life and the complex social structures of the physical world and they get re-created in weird ways in a digital, social space.
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
Moreover, the metaphor breaks down entirely in a post-scarcity, algorithmically mediated world, where there is no obvious relationship between the opinions a person puts forth and where that opinion shows up, often in a mechanically distorted way. The marketplace of ideas assumes a relatively even distribution of megaphones, or a random distributio... See more
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
The only thing left for Rey Diaz to do was to examine the blown-up black-and-white photographs hanging on the wall. He recognized the skinny man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe as Oppenheimer, then Allen directed his attention back to the bland terminals. “These displays are obsolete,” Rey Diaz said. “But behind them is the most powerful computer
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