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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Came up with a major new real-gloom thesis The world is actually getting rapidly simpler, a sign of Tainterian collapse in progress It feels like it’s getting more complex because the simplification is happening via deactuation of previously autonomically regulated homeostatic modes So things which could previously be “unconscious operations” in a whitehead sense increasingly have to be conscious, increasing cognitive burdens But it still overall simplifies things because you stop doing less important things when you have to manually do previously automated more important things This is deprotocolization and reprotocolization netting out to lower (but possibly more sophisticated and efficient) protocolization overall. So you get the simultaneous feel of technological progress and regression to wildness Crypto is a big part of this. The most sophisticated protocols to ever exist… but leading a net wave of deprotocolization. Crypto is collapsetech
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rafa
@rafa
Ok so: what’s the driver here? Why go through the trouble of collapsetech to begin with? Did we hit peak capital accumulation games in automationworld (in the whitehead sense) so much that an entire population preferred collapsetech (rewilding) than living in a non-winnable game?
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Sharon
@sharonjohn
Crypto seems like a debundling of platforms, which everyone realized became rent seeking, into interoperable protocols which could then be reassembled client-side per use case both to redo existing platforms and to solve “collapse” future use cases in a world without fiat or monoliths
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