How information flows. Your choices to tweet & retweet things are part of the collective human conversation that is making sense of what we collectively know & don't know.
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How information flows. Your choices to tweet & retweet things are part of the collective human conversation that is making sense of what we collectively know & don't know.
Leverage Point #6 - who has access to what information academic paywalls are part of it but in order to access something you also need to know that it exists and how to find it in the first place!
Consider that if this applies to scientific papers it might also apply to the rest of memeplexes developing. Your tweets & retweets have a tiny but nonlinear impact on others' thinking, around the world.
You'll never know the impact of all of your actions. Sorry utilitarians. Things are way too intertwingled, and counterfactuals are inaccessible: can't rerun universe But you can consider what sorts of things your actions might be causing to evolve.
Memes are ultimately a long game, and involve both persistence & creativity on the part of the meme-spreaders, as well as quality of the underlying source. If underlying quality is high enough that many people become superspreaders (eg roam) then 🚀📈
Another example is Iain McGilchrist's work on 🧠, which now over a dozen people have engaged with due to my persistently talking about the value I get from it. And that's still growing!
