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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Hell no. This would be like replacing handshakes and hellos with tips. Keep likes separate from tips of any sort. Likes are illegible signals of acknowledgment and organic relationships. Tips are strongly status-coded legible transactions that will lead to Seeing Like a [Crypto] State if allowed to eat likes.
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I realize coinbase extended universe is leading an existential struggle to grow the crypto economy gdp but I think paradoxically the trick to doing that may be fighting harder to preserve *non-transactional* spaces. Kinda like measuring the strength of a civilization by the health of its wildernesses.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Don’t replace all the bald eagles with factory farm chickens Don’t replace the wild elk with feedlot cattle Don’t replace the rich range of bananas with single standard cavendish Don’t replace all apples with Washington red delicious (worst apple ever btw)
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