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Reposting a note comparing some aspects of the current crypto space to weed that I made on the other app: ----- Ten years ago, to many weed represented freedom, and rebellion against sclerotic old order that denied self-sovereignty over our bodies. Then, weed became legalized, and "official". On that day, I remember my personal interest in weed dropping by > 2x overnight. And since then, public discourse is moving toward a balanced view of weed: it is much less harmful than alcohol and smoking, and has valuable medical uses, but it is also far from harmless, especially in its modern corporate hyper-optimized versions. Crypto finance is similar. In the old order, @GaryGensler created a regime where tokens that give investors clear indication of what their rights are and where their revenue comes from is a "security", but obfuscated "governance tokens" are potentially in the clear. ...
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Yeah this is a fair comparison. But this also represents an interesting problem that is being faced in other sectors. As a consumer, it is in your best interest to consume moderately. Don't eat too much junk food, play too addictive games, watch addictive content. As a platform, the ones that maximally extract value tend to easily get consumers. Biggest social medias are tiktok and insta. WoW and chess are pretty popular still but the newer games have a clear stronghold.
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One possible hopeful future is that with AI, "interfaces" as a whole will go away, and we'll end up with an architecture where the user (or rather, a sophisticated thing that is chosen by and more likely to be aligned with the user) gets much more control over what the user sees.
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LLM optimisation would be the new SEO optimisation in that world, interesting ☺️!
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