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... rank of most important things that happened yesterday? Online sources can have infinite content, updated infinitely quickly. But newspapers have scarce space and have a built in time delay. They naturally regularize the signal. Even better would...
Parasocial relationships only happen in a world of infinite content. The creator directly addresses the camera and treats it like a friend. The fan receives an authentic connection that is one way but feels two way. "...
... they won't do it. The Saruman understands the power of memetics in this age of infinite content.
Infinite content and LLMs can create filter bubbles but for your self-perception. Not only is it finding the content that makes you feel good about what you already b...
...owing he had accumulated. Society is stuck in that same problem in the world of infinite content.
Finite content can be cozy. Infinite content cannot be. Today we have finite software and infinite content. What if we had infinite software and finite content?
...f you want the information to travel, but for a different reason. In a world of infinite content and frictionless transmission, the "vivid story" person technique becomes dominant. Deranged actions are naturally vivid stories. "He did what?" The ...
The algorithms we use to navigate the firehose of infinite content shape how society sees itself. With infinite content you must have an algorithm to sift through it all. An algorithm is a lens made by others. They m...
We've been living in a world of infinite content. In a world of infinite content you need an algorithm to filter for you. It would be impossible to navigate the firehose yourself.[ow] The algorithm ...
In a world of infinite content the friction of individual apps was too much so content centralized in one place. That was possible to do because the infinite things weren't Turing ...
Infinite content is passive. Infinite content got hyper-aggregated and that's not ideal. Infinite software is active--it can do things. That makes it more powerful, b...
...g era of infinite software.[oz] Think of the path the industry took from PCs to Infinite content. It started in the 90's with digital publishing, then the web, then aggregators.
..., you stop listening to the information to remove the dissonance. In a world of infinite content this is easier than ever before. There's infinite other content to listen to if you tune any given source out. But if it's impossible to avoid becaus...
...of the structure? Engagement is the emergent thing to optimize for in media; in infinite content and finite viewing time, the zero sum thing is about more watch time. If you don't optimize for it, then you are outcompeted by the entity who does. ...