I like both the ideas that the false aphorism highlights multi-scalarity (?) and critical/leverage points, a kindasorta articulation point in the vast dimensional space ... a segmented body. But I think I'm with Nick on this one. [gasp] It seems like pseudo-profundity to me.
But aside from steelmanning, there are other ways (perhaps cynical) of describing how psuedo-profundity is useful, not all of them negative. Sure, we have Barnum-inspired grifters. But we also have metaphor-slingers (like Steven Pinker or Malcom Gladwell) who may well be slinging their optimism in Good Faith. While Trump and his ilk whip up their followers through loose speech, Harris and her ilk whip up their followers with runaway feedback loops like "hope" and "aspiration". Web3 is, I think, a great example. It cuts us as a population in ways things like TESCREAL or Doomers vs Accelerationists doesn't cut us. There's a constellation of subjects that orbit that space like "post quantum crypto", True E2E, authenticity vs. anonymity, "free" speech, etc. Every one of these concepts is pseudo-profound in a useful way. I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall when SimpleX finally landed it's last funding round. I wonder if there was a slide in the deck that touted "And all the neo-nazis will flock to us from Telegram!" On 10/7/24 07:49, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I still think that the writing of this passage, though, gorgeous, is pretty empty, about as empty as the claim that we are terrestrial animals that live in an age of flight. Or that we have beetle-age music tastes in an age of hip-hop.
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