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John: What is the opposite of The Long Night, i.e. a healthy ecosystem with multiple competing sense-making networks? And, is such an ecosystem even possible, or can their only be one "alpha predator" that emerges based on winner take all dynamics, similar to those that exist in tech?

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Oct 18, 2022Liked by John Robb

Have you spent any time thinking about how networks amplify dysfunction? i.e. the 'accepted truth' is something that is unenforceable or technical impossible to implement in reality and thus the network then produces dysfunctional outcomes where viewpoints or ideas in the past might be shut down, examples might be anything from mass shooters to current aspects of the failing energy policy in the EU.

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