Books can also be a source of noise. It's always about finding the signal, either in print media or online media. Users need tools to help sort and sift through the noise to find the signal. Our developers here understand this better than most, because they recognize what's wrong with current systems and wish to build a better one.
The only reason books became a source of signal was because they were more expensive to produce than the village idiots talking in the streets.
Unless online discourse carries a cost to parse out quality, it will always devolve into the dumpster fire twitter/X is today.
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That's what I love about you Derek 🤙🏻. Books became a source of noise as they became cheaper to produce, but also knowledge expounded so like everything, a double edged sword. Price signal is only one of many tools of course, looking forward to what other innovation lies ahead.
fair points, i hadn't thought about as books became cheaper to produce, anyone could have produced them, adding more noise. which i guess is why we have the saying the winners write the history books. i guess this also used to apply to the rich as well? or at least it used to.
It's a difficult problem to solve. On one hand you want everyone to be able to express themselves, on the other had that creates chaos, because naturally people have different levels of knowledge and expertise. Historically the strongest signal was associated with the highest cost, but maybe that's not the best way 🤔.