1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (622) ·
In fact, it's quite possible, even likely, that a platform consisting ONLY of my network would be more valuable to me than a platform with everyone on it because the entire network is signal to me, with very little noise.
1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (622) ·
The core fallacy people use here is in aggregating the network into a single unit.
It is not a single unit, by virtue of being a network.
Connections between different things.
This oversimplification is the source of many errors.
1JLButMZPU7xu2PUBPxekTcpJKPzZuaTuZ (622) ·
"Mr. Keynes’ aggregates conceal the most fundamental mechanisms of change." -- F. A. Hayek
Networks must be understood as independent, connected pieces with qualitative in addition to quantitative relationships.