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0 pointsdredmorbius3y ago0 comments

Incidentally 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 ;-)

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contingencies3y ago

Sure. 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.

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