I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness • Hacker News Board

Re: I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness

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Post by nsonha » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 1:42 PM UTC

ComradePhil wrote: post #8

chii wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> run it fully decentralized. and yet, such a thing is already possible - in fact there's plenty of choices. None of them have taken off for various reasons. I really don't believe a decentralized system works as the network effect fails to achieve domination under such a system (aka, competition from centralized network will out-compete it).

I don't mean decentralized as in run by small communities. I mean decentralized as in not run in anyone's server... like how Dapps run on Etherium.

how does this change anything? The other day I saw this tweet from Kelsey Hightower, which I agree with, something like the tech might be decentralized but the power structure that the human tend to create around it will not be. Maybe it's just human nature to require SOME level of centralization, just look at our political system.

Re: I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness

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Post by jfengel » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 6:52 PM UTC

0xdeadb00f wrote: post #10

If Twitter is the closest thing to a global consciousness we are all doomed as a species. How can someone even claim this? Twitter is a cesspool, I thought people on Twitter knew this. But apparently not. That being said, it is @jack who is saying this. So I'd take it with a massive tablespoon of salt.

If Twitter is a consciousness, then it's one that's all "id":

the instinctual component of personality that is present at birth, and is the source of bodily needs and wants, emotional impulses and desires, especially aggression and the libido (sex drive).

It doesn't have even a shadow of "superego" to put in charge of moderating its wants and desires. It's an infant -- an infant that is never going to grow up.

If it's a "global consciousness", then it's a consciousness of an entity I do not wish to ever meet. It's a terrible person, and it's only getting worse.

Re: I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness

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Post by aaaaaaaaata » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 7:36 PM UTC

0xdeadb00f wrote: post #10

If Twitter is the closest thing to a global consciousness we are all doomed as a species. How can someone even claim this? Twitter is a cesspool, I thought people on Twitter knew this. But apparently not. That being said, it is @jack who is saying this. So I'd take it with a massive tablespoon of salt.

Humanity taken as an average is also a cesspool, don't let anyone mislead you any further than right here.

Re: I love Twitter. Twitter is the closest thing we have to a global consciousness

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Post by aaaaaaaaata » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 7:37 PM UTC

ComradePhil wrote: post #8

chii wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> run it fully decentralized. and yet, such a thing is already possible - in fact there's plenty of choices. None of them have taken off for various reasons. I really don't believe a decentralized system works as the network effect fails to achieve domination under such a system (aka, competition from centralized network will out-compete it).

I don't mean decentralized as in run by small communities. I mean decentralized as in not run in anyone's server... like how Dapps run on Etherium.

Why can't this community spell "Ethereum"?!