Liu Jixin’s topical “Three Bodies” and the Internet becoming a “dark forest” - YAMDAS Current Update History

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  • And Yancey Strickler asks if the Internet is becoming this “dark forest” as well. In fact, he says, this text itself is a case in point. The text was initially broadcast on a private channel of 500 people Strickler knew and selected, which he says is the online environment where he felt safest and could be his “truest self
 Slack channels, Instagram in private mode, invitation-only forums, Snapchat, WeChat (or LINE in Japan)
 All of the above places are not indexed, optimized, or gamed by search engines, which is why they allow for relaxed dialogue. He says that the culture in such places is closer to the real world than in other Internet places.

raurublock It’s true that I had a faint idea in my PC communication days that “a world where words uttered without much thought are kept as a semi-permanent log must be terribly harsh on people
“. I had a faint idea that “the world where words uttered without much thought are kept in a semi-permanent log is terribly harsh on people
” in my PC communication days, but “and then indexed and searched” is nothing less than harsh, isn’t it?

rootport I think the concept of the “darkening Internet” is a very good description of the current state of the world, but I wonder what the epicenter is.


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