David Auerbach's "Meganets"

My notes (on-going till I say so}:

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persistent, evolvIng, opaque(e.g. hft)
volume, velocity, virality
cardinalityn of many to many = social networks + off original platform human interaction =

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MEGANET

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blockchain technololgy=decentralization so why do organizations want to adopt.
shortcomings only in its unpredictability
virality= unpredictable feedback loop not popularity
Jan 6 2021 capital invasion was example of meganet. No one is in control but we'll still point to someone.
Gamestop another example
AMZN sells prodcuts, Google sells ads, FB sells people
Textual to click and emoticons and lists computerize behavior
no reset, initialize or reboot to undo unintended consequencesn (inflation)
MSFT sold software; GOOGL indexing determed by Web interactivelyn (SEO); passive vs active search
Metaverse = grafting into Meganet a gamification and monetization of life

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Keeping Score as in gamify life

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Advertising (Ad blockers?)(potential) vs paywalls (guaranteed)
Control vs manage? See latest Google for Android developer notification.
Gold mining, virtual inflation, WoW Corrupted Blood

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blockchain / crypto = verfiable authnticity

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Attaching blockchain transactions to a game means that it can never be reset.
smart contracts remove human interaction; code rules
blockchain transactions = borderless and censorship resistant
move to centralize and regulate to mitigate failure not eliminate
false assumption after all Lehman no more after 158 years
Can still fork off into separate realities even with consensus
ideological vs technical; economic vs programmatic
Ceding control to MEGANET while seeking robust solutions to the inevitable code update.

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India'a Aadhaar and China's SCS (Social Credit System) = 3rd party login cleansing

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Tay, Zo and Google AI chat bots = hardware capabilties = software to match = social media = meganents

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LLMs = Style of wording and placement of words vs semantics and intent. Computerizing lanuguage,
deep learning from meganet data, prompting adds to feedback loop of unconstrained meganet
thinking VS classification VS drawing/building fences

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Appearance of regaining control?

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Slow down for ALL vs targeted control. Chaos cancels chaos?
volume produced by homogenious groupings; no geographical boundaries like in the physical world.
disperse tight affinity cirles (echo chanbers) by allowing for chance encounters or placement that exixts in physical world.
Quantity vs quality on internet (outshout opponents), but what about popular media citing internet sources?
Garbage in garbage out but can AI be trained to recognize good garbage from bad.
Recognize superficial homogenity vs enforced homogenity by culture?
change the perception of the value of meganet data with institutionalized corrupt data brokers
Third party adoption of central ID "clean" databases no longer reliable.
AI appears to work because data input from messy humans is forced into computerized categories?
targeted fixes will lead to what's your internet score. rise of iso (internet score optimization)
How does this affect blockchain's perceived decentralization through consensus?
only a fool is certain of anything?
so it is said.

Waiting for Godot

Read it again or maybe for the first time. I am fairly certain that I am uncertain that I ever read it. Although, the title is so much a part of Western culture, I was probably taught it by an influential existential high school teacher. Anyway, just reminded not to take myself so seriously.

Thinking About Meganets Prompted by David Auerbach

The diagram below was inspired at the outset of reading Meganets: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives.

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