"They distribute digests of the things that have interested them; they assemble Dunbar goods for the benefit of small groups; they save succinct references to the things they've found and share them with people they know will be interested in them. The perceptions and actions of curators are designed to perturb their surrounding environment and elicit surprise, again and again, and across every domain. They introduce sources of novelty and divergence and interact in ways that catalyse new relationships and insight.

That is the fundamental character of a curator; they choose to maximise surprise."
https://paragraph.xyz/@subset/maximise-surprise

Surprise minimisation as described by active inference got me thinking. Is what separates curators from consumers/creators the orientation towards surprise? Most display aversion to surprise while others seek and solve for it. In that case, curation equals surprise maximisation.

Surprise minimisation as described by active inference got me thinking. Is what separates curators from consumers/creators the orientation towards surprise? Most display aversion to surprise while others seek and solve for it. In that case, curation equals surprise maximisation.
https://warpcast.com/msms/0xada0182e

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that sounds generally apt but i think there are overlaps. for example i often create things not knowing what to expect and happy to be surprised. often it's done out of curiosity. so am i curating or creating? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Yeah, I know what ya mean. The con-cur-cre trichotomy is a little contrived—especially as everyone tends to slide between modes—but I do think it’s a legit way to focus in on some differentiating criteria that are persistent and reliable.