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the analogy I've used so far to talk about this is how people used to treat the electric guitar like an acoustic guitar for almost 30 years before jimi hendrix came along & demonstrated how you could push it to its limit not a perfect analogy bc guitar is (mostly) single-player
generally speaking most people live in the past https://t.co/B70eRWBKEV
maybe the most epic things people have done with social media you could say are things like "meme the guy into the whitehouse", "storm the capital" etc... IMO all of this is still extremely early stage, play-doh stuff. I believe the real stuff will reshape society Foundationally
here's an interesting thing to chew onΒ β electricity was an innovation over steam, and even when it showed up, it took 50 years for systems to truly, fully adapt. we are still in the middle of the system adaptation for "everyone can publish" https://t.co/EafEEEcvj9
It took 50yrs for factories to transition from steam power to electric power, even though it was cleaner, safer, more efficient. Why? Existing systems were optimized for the former - you can't just swap A for B, you also need to change the architecture, production line, workers
science and education should be completely revolutionized from the ground up. people get excited for a minute when they watch a ted talk, and then after about a year of trying some stuff they give up. but these things take decades even when the writing is on the wall
aside and in parallel: the challenge for a lot of people, based on a bunch of conversations I've had, seems to be: how to be excited about something relatively slow-moving over a lengthy period of time. this is actually a storytelling skillset I think
in concrete terms about my own publishing, which is sort of performance art: just as I grew from nothing to ~30k on twitter I will grow from nothing to 100k+ on youtube and use that to organize/coordinate human networks in cities worldwide
are you getting it? this isn't about ME, I am just a wave in the ocean, I may as well be anonymous. this is about NETWORK EFFECTS that for some reason 99.99% of people are still oblivious to. but whatever, because https://t.co/0U3Aob1uXP
hrm I am taking this in a slightly weird direction today lol point is we have not begun to scratch the surface we are in the early days the biggest things we've seen are but a fraction of what is to come it's always been that way and people are always surprised nevertheless
here's another random-ish related thought there are so many people in the world that it actually makes perfect sense, from a cost-benefit analysis POV, to completely ignore/ghost anybody who doesn't understand you that can be rude, so I wouldn't go that far, but think abt it
brains designed for tight knit group of ~150 people, maybe a small multiple of that culture designed for 10,000-100,000ish in a world of ~7,700,000,000 the opportunities aren't just infinite, they are UNIMAGINABLE because our imagination is constrained by our history/culture
we are like little babies playing with the froth at the farthest reach of the tide, trying to conceive of the true scale of the ocean do you know how big the ocean is; if you even begin to try to map it onto your intuitions you'll still be wrong https://t.co/KAzVre02SO
people be like "help me o lord why do I keep thinking bout the titty" and not "damn, fucken chimpanzees managed to calculate the curvature of the earth and photograph it from outer space and send probes into deep space"
anyway yea this is why I don't meditate too much. that way I can rest easy, relax and think about https://t.co/uAHyFDSior
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