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Complex Adaptive Media Systems

Thinking in a massive, networked state of constantly becoming 🧵

Complex Adaptive Media Systems

Thinking in a massive, networked state of constantly becoming 🧵

https://paragraph.xyz/@starholder/complex-adaptive-media-systems

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DAOs: The LAO & Flamingo

Far enough that being prescriptive about how this will look, can leave one foolish. Better to think about how we deal with scale in the analog world when things go past being governable and scripted into self-organizing, emergent systems, then bringing that online to media.

Publishing it like this because we are both near & far from CAMS coming to life. 

Near enough that if you look at what's happening on L2s and socialfi stacks like Base + Farcaster, you can see that our current NFT object fetish model won't scale.

I'm back on my old BS, talking about how media is going to change with generative AI, blockchains and us becoming a fully networked society.

This was originally intended as a full paper with a proposed system design & use cases, but just putting the introduction out now.

savouring the all-you-can-eat bottomless pit of the internet

Thanks for reading, digging and tipping. I don't feel like I've fully put my finger on this yet...but we've always thought about these systems as big and uncontrollable, yet that's going to change once we virtualize them. Like what happens to hyperobjects when you start treating their properties as parameters?

Happened to be reading up about hyperobjects recently, and was thinking about crypto as a form of a hyperobject. But you've gone much further to apply it to how networked media will manifest at the confluence of AI and web3. 

Enjoying these think pieces thus far and looking forward to future papers!

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