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"a theme that comes out of it is the power of gradients of information. Things that guide you, you a cell, you an ant, you a commercial district. Things that can guide you towards things, things that can repel you, gradients of attraction and repulsion."💩https://t.co/KHVSNA5RD0 https://t.co/On2ge3LScm https://t.co/8g8TE6CIcs
"Does anyone believe we're up to the task?We're not, and that's the worry. Because if we're not trying to understand how to shape the Internet so that its good effects outweigh the bad, powerful interests will do all the shaping."https://t.co/Flkw8mWNE8https://t.co/021sdN2vvi
The Witcher's Chaoshttps://t.co/aeGcFLUm8c
Emergent Politics.https://t.co/RKRIrJUq0u
An endless war.https://t.co/Ji0yHvpqlQ
A 'knight' in the meme war lives and dies by their personal brand. Their 'mook' armies march to drums of beef-only thinking.Loyalists pillaging social capital in an endless war. Thumping merch-laden chests, using the backs of tombs filled with teachings of those they worship.
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You can't just cause a revolution by printing memes on the internet to inspire a worldwide psychoacoustic contagion.Haha Caramelldansen go ウマウマダンスhttps://t.co/pWdacc5uKg
Auto-catalytic.A fire that sparks itself.https://t.co/1MNMHEWuTg
"on the theory of autocatalytic sets and on how this theory can be used to study the probability of emergence, [...] ideas of how this theory can potentially be applied to living systems in general and perhaps even to social systems such as the economy."https://t.co/Z1dYoV8tdk