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We’re heading toward a Library of Babel scenario where virtually every permutation of text, video, and audio will either pre-exist online (Borges style) or be artificially generated on the fly (as on https://libraryofbabel.info/) to drive engagement for cheap. Which means that every most brilliant piece of insight will be out there; but they will be drowned out by vastly many more orders of magnitude of trite platitudes. Like in the Library of Babel, no index exists to tell them apart. There is no “key” to finding the needles of greatness in the haystack of slop. Brute forcing discovery would take literal eons, as in Borges’ story. In turn, insightful dwellers of the internet like @riotgoools give up, log off, and go touch grass, leaving ever more of the space to be filled by bots that not only author the content, but also pretend to be consuming and engaging with it. It’s the most recent embodiment of the Dead Internet Theory. How do we course correct from here? 1/3
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Some thoughts: a) Cryptography-enabled *proof of humanity* / verifiable Sybil resistance for *users* (we’ll eventually need this on Farcaster, Reddit, X, etc). Bots might be tolerated, even welcome, but we need to tell humans apart. b) Cryptography-enabled *proof of authenticity* for human-generated *content* (e.g., @faust’s ROC for photos/videos). We need to know what to trust without trust assumptions. c) Cryptography-enabled *proof of insight* (e.g., can we use LLMs *in reverse* to rate both human- and AI-generated content on a freshness / originality / uniqueness scale relative to all other pre-existing content, and promote the highest-rated output — because eventually, AI will also be capable of producing truly clever and novel insights that we will want to read). All crypto(graphically) enabled technologies. Any others? 2/3
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more and more, i'm leaning towards smaller closed networks. the other part of borges' library of babel story is the emergence of things like cults because of all the faulty information much like how monolith social networks today fan the flames of disinformation, conspiracy theories, etc. and no consensus on shared reality can ever be reached again
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At the risk of sounding like another Luddite/grass botherer, I truly think that Web Rot runs deep, the noise has overshadowed the signal and, at least what we think of as the web, is beyond redemption. However I suspect the downfall is a misapprehension, based on our own category mistake of what the internet is. The web has always been a potential, never an actuality, the freedom of communication, instant connection and access to knowledge, always was a path we hoped for rather, than the technology we experienced. Always flatland, the wall behind the fire in Platos cave, or the description of a colour absent from qualia. Adore that Borges comes up, one if my favourite blind magicians of all time. Have you read "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" by him? Perhaps the thin, entropy prone content of the web are slow cycles of memetic stretching. Maybe the questions of authorship, reliability and humanity are not the right questions, maybe the internet isn’t the right arena, maybe it never was a space at all
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