Thank you for the writeup! I’ve long had a distant impression of Arbital as being some kind of “mindmapping prediction social thing” and now that I’ve heard the explanation of its iterating vision I think maybe my model of it might be “Alexei and Eliezer’s Memex or Xanadu”.
This updates me a bit in the direction that something like Arbital will exist in the future and be a big deal, and it will probably make more progress by exteme attention to (1) the microeconomics of users and their existing preferences and their desire to have property they seem to control and (2) compromising on the overall “economic architecture” of the system such that it does not actually bring about the full utopian societal transformation it initially promised.
Fun fact: originally Eliezer called the project Zanaduu (a play on Xanadu-doomed).
I’ll bet that parts of Arbital will show up across various products (and I’ve already seen some), but I would be very very surprised if we get something that has the entire package in the next 5 years.
Thank you for the writeup! I’ve long had a distant impression of Arbital as being some kind of “mindmapping prediction social thing” and now that I’ve heard the explanation of its iterating vision I think maybe my model of it might be “Alexei and Eliezer’s Memex or Xanadu”.
This updates me a bit in the direction that something like Arbital will exist in the future and be a big deal, and it will probably make more progress by exteme attention to (1) the microeconomics of users and their existing preferences and their desire to have property they seem to control and (2) compromising on the overall “economic architecture” of the system such that it does not actually bring about the full utopian societal transformation it initially promised.
Fun fact: originally Eliezer called the project Zanaduu (a play on Xanadu-doomed).
I’ll bet that parts of Arbital will show up across various products (and I’ve already seen some), but I would be very very surprised if we get something that has the entire package in the next 5 years.