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by gsf_emergency 537 days ago
And in what sense are the Shakespearean monkeys an unhealthy rabble?

I'm currently vibing that those popular+attentionally-limited links are necessary, but not sufficient, for wisdom uncovery..

And that a healthier route may involve actively compensating for the intrinsic asymmetry between Rao's weird & hypernormal in his "new systems of survival".

(Contrast with Jane Jacobs' guardian/commercial, or Rao's latest Mandala/Machine dichotomy, when the yinyang dynamic is much more obvious)

As I mentioned to GP earlier, one design bug with the current dynamic is that there is no affordance* for the hook of enlightenment (moksha) to turn into sustainable (re)production (flow, aka samsara)

Imagine the Shakespearean monkeys, but with a mechanism to string together some of the shorter uncoveries..

* Adfordance, heh

Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeworth%27s_limit_theorem