Plexus
@plexusearth
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we connect people thru thoughts. a public benefit company
New York, NY
Joined February 2022
Plexus’ venture company is closing. A complex decision, which boils down to this: it wasn’t the right format for Plexus’ movement, toward an internet that values us as people rather than consumers. Your Voices are weird and amazing and made this movement start. As our company
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"Maybe we’re afraid that once we acknowledge one stranger’s humanity, we’d have to acknowledge the humanity of all the others, too. That schizophrenic half-clothed man on the subway? Yeah, he’s someone’s son. He’s you, with hardly more than randomness standing between your two
wrote a lil piece about smiling at people in nyc :) i'm pretty happy with this one thanks to the @0xFoster community for the support, now and always! https://t.co/8P29iME1OW
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one of my favorite things to do on youtube is to search for things like “London walk”, “Rio walk”, etc for different cities around the world. it’s so nice to just see ordinary people going about their lives all over the world
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In some sense, I see all multiplayer collaboration systems as *simulations* Whenever there’s concurrent editing, the goal is to simulate the counterfactual “what would A have done if they’d seen B’s changes”
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Thank you to our host @betaworks+ @nbaronia1 as well as @RazberryChai ( https://t.co/cgcnbylnQL),
@aadillpickle, https://t.co/2EeHFIwSSi,
@trykino & @plexusearth for their support + sponsoring these tracks! We have a few more sponsorship spots left - DM if interested! <3
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"...this seeming chaos which is in us is a rich, rolling, swelling, dying, lilting, singing, laughing, shouting, crying, sleeping order." (Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building)
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architecture which embraces chaos...
"We're looking for an architecture rather like some music and poetry which can actually be changed by the users, an architecture of improvisation." —Sir Richard Rogers
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(While the above Tweet asks whether transparent and egalitarian surveillance is possible, it’s important to be clear: many if not most current forms of data surveillance are nowhere close, but rather, opaque and unacceptably target already marginalized groups.)
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The biggest evil of www monopolies (facebook, google, openai, tiktok) isn’t surveillance. It’s that they don’t give you credit for what they surveil. Every time you explore the web, you contribute to it. You help rerank search results and feeds and teach chatGPT what’s helpful
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assuming all engagement is good is bad
In face to face interaction, negative reinforcement decreases unwanted behavior. On social media, it's the opposite. If you want to see less of a behavior, opinion, ideology, voice you don't like, you must ignore it. Negative engagement counts as engagement, so you see it more.
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gave a talk about an uncomfortable truth https://t.co/pqI7qxlEHV
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Whatever you do on your phone on the subway, whatever podcast you listen to on your walk, whatever work you knock out at your desk… maybe that isn’t the entire world. Maybe, beyond the freneticism of what is digital and specialized, a deep patient world is waiting for you.
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Plexus is in the business of helping the universe wink at you. Of giving you a chorus of perfect stranger’s voices, speaking about the thing you're thinking about, all as a way to say: There is more to the world than you know.
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The right stranger’s Voice can be a wink from the universe. A little pinch. Waking you from the dream that was your life, to tell you—hey, there is so soo much more. More than you were thinking about. And that the more is beautiful and inspiring and intriguing. And that the
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