i’d go deeper – whales in sea world.. not only not realizing in water/cage/et-al.. we have no idea what legit free people are like .. so we keep perpetuating any/all the forms of m\a\p.. like (from this thread): money, incentives, et al..
ie: not enough to notice in water.. need (global) detox/re\set.. to gt out.. hari rat park law et al
The attention economy has shifted the media landscape. We are being engineered by social media platforms to maximize profit, which means maximizing attention, which means maximizing outrage + fear + division.
the not new part is important.. because if we think something new is the root of the problem.. we just keep playing wack a mole..
Top social media platforms are employing superpowered AI’s to find ways to keep us on site longer, to capture our attention longer, to make us more profitable. To make us more profitable, these AI’s upregulate content that hijacks our limbic + reptilian brains.
This is what I mean when I say “you are a fish in water”. Just like a fish does not notice the water around it, we do not notice these superpowered AIs creating fear, division, outrage, and other limbic hijacks all around us.
Humanity is fractured into many different memetic tribes, each with their own ultimate objective.
BC of the attention economy and the division it creates, the fault lines between these tribes are LAND MINES. We live in an information environment that upregulates division. Modern memetic tribes havent figured out how to HOLD power. Only to deconstruct power structures.
The stakes of solving this problem could not be higher. As humanity hurdles towards the middle of the 21st century, we are faced with with many interconnected coordination failures, that we MUST solve. OUR INFORMATION ECOSYSTEM IS UPSTREAM OF EVERY OTHER PUBLIC GOODS PROBLEM.
What if we could build an information environmenet that upregulates cooperation across social distance? What if we could help create a quilt of social relationships that was strong + did not tear when met with stress?
What if we could reverse the race to the bottom of the brainstem? What if we could create a social media environment that upregulates the public good instead of the public bad?
But we weren’t seeing many people show up to answer questions, to explain how things work, or to give thoughtful feedback.
because ie: this.. need something for everyone.. not just for the ones who happen to be able/brave enough to ie: ask for help.. let alone know what they really need.. (black science of people/whales law et al)
So we started experimenting with ways to solve this problem.
In order to create incentives for people to help each
oi.. incentive ness (and help\ing ness) is part of the water symptom..
(back to tweet thread):
In 2023, now that @alloprotocol and @LensProtocol are here, we are doing it.
We have built a social media experience on @LensProtocol , powered by Quadratic Funding on@alloprotocol, up-regulates those who promote public goods. From now until Friday 7/21, posts tagged #ethcc on http://quadraticlenster.xyz will be matched with $10k worth of matching.
Between now & Friday, when you see a post w #ethcc in it on http://quadraticlenster.xyz, you can send a microtip to the creator, and be matched by the $10k matching pool we’ve created.
Since the matching pool uses QF (http://wtfisqf.com) even a 0.01 WMATIC ($0.01) tip can be worth 1000x (10 WMATIC, or $7.70) that to creators! *Quadratic Funding is REALLY REALLY powerful at upregulating the things many people care about.
oh my.. again.. we have no idea what legit free people are like.. (aka: what our legit needs/cares are).. need global detox/re\set first..
until then.. nothing really powerful..meaning.. nothing will change that record of same song.. all will just keep us numb in sea world
My dream is to address these public goods problem AND create a new stream of revenue for creators that support the public good. What if your social media habit could be a part time job? Instead of working for likes/RTs, you could work for the public good paid for by microtips.
We spend 30 minutes every quarter funding public goods on @gitcoin (or @retropgf on @OptimismMemes, or on @Giveth ) We spend HOURS per day on social media. What if we could embed public goods funding right in our digital town squares?
deeper.. what if we could (and today we can) org the chaos of legit free people.. in all the town squares ness.. let’s ’embed’ that deep..
Perhaps ecosystems that want to support their public goods on @gitcoin (or others) could also incentivize trending topics on lens. Eg a $250k round on @gitcoin grants could be supported by a $25k sidecar social media round.
need to listen to (facil) this ecossytem: ‘in undisturbed ecosystems ..the average individual, species, or population, left to its own devices, behaves in ways that serve and stabilize the whole..’ –Dana Meadows
TLDR 1. Post about #ethcc on http://quadraticlenster.xyz 2. tip each other 3. earn from the QF matching pool, powered by @alloprotocol.. t
Another thing you can do is recognize when you are a fish in water around you. Next time you are using social media, try to notice how the superpowered AI is trying to hijack your attention.
Public goods are good. With web3, we can create more positive sum digital worlds. Thanks @gitcoin @alloprotocol @dabit3 @StaniKulechov @RaidGuild @LensProtocol @lensterxyz & many many others for all the help proving it! /fin
to kevin’s ignite boulder.. ie: a be you book and all our experimentation from 2009 on.. starts with this insight/mindset:
Our county is 6th in the nation in suicide rate. Every 9 days someone takes their life. Globally, the current rate is one every 40 seconds. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in 11-24 year olds.
The measure we are currently using toward success, the actions we are currently using to fix problems, even to determine which problems are problems, aren’t boding us well.
be you. 