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I am a BIG fan of deletion, an operation basically antithetical to Web3. What do we lose when we lose deletion?

Robin Sloan • Notes on Web3

Homogenization is beginning to alienate consumers rather than entertain them, and the entity to blame is “the algorithm.”

If your work is in any sense “creative” – if you’re a writer, designer, therapist, artist, editor, coach, architect, podcaster, or much else besides – there’s a good chance you’ve spent recent months worried that AI might be coming for your job. (You might be excited by AI’s potential, too; the two aren’t mutually exclusive.) But something about th

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Rob Tourtelot

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But the Yglesias profile’s very existence reminds us of an important rule of thumb for navigating the content economy in the 21st century: Under the present regime, there is no real downside risk to posting. You might lose a small handful of subscribers or followers if you overwhelm their inbox, or write an egregiously bad post -- but on balance yo

Max Read • Matt Yglesias and the Secret of Blogging

As Web 2.0 companies began to deeply understand the powerful potential of their innovations — the game-ish reaction buttons, the follower graph, the algorithmic ‘newsfeed’ — they became adept at a clever stratagem. Rather than committing to perpetual openness, they could offer new user tools or developer APIs and encourage the community to use them... See more

Brian Flynn • Reputation in Web3: Ships Built on the Great Flood

So the problem isn’t behavior modification in itself. The problem is relentless, robotic, ultimately meaningless behavior modification in the service of unseen manipulators and uncaring algorithms.