5 tweets · May 2023 · 81 likes · 5 retweets · read on Twitter
the god of coordination 0. exists 1. has no name 2. *can't* be named because any name would get co-opted by people trying to cheaply signal trustworthiness 3. having said that: "the dao", "love", "meta-protocol & as with Moloch, more key than naming it is helping people See it
oh, "exaptation" and "the upward spiral" are also pretty close names for this phenomenon
I've been thinking about this more and I feel like I can point at the shape kinda concisely now tho. Moloch says "if you don't do it, someone else will!" Who says "if this [collaboration, partnership, We] isn't working out, find/create one that does!"
also here's @RomeoStevens76's take, drawn out by @aneeshm. it highlights useful system dynamics about how in a sense the largest supercooperation cluster must be larger than the largest superdefection cluster since the latter can't coordinate as well youtube.com/watch?v=X6MYsK…
oh and then Romeo and I had a follow-up convo, elaborating on the ideas a bunch