Tom Reed Demonstrating How We Effectively Communicate Using YouTube

First I saw this video "Tassie's Mom has passed", and didn't know who Tassie is, ...

But then this showed up in my recommendations, because others who knew watched it, or searched for it, after they saw the video above. 

So what happens is that what I call the YouTube disposition matrix, a.k.a. "the algorithm," clumps videos together, and the system effectively becomes a multiplexed (anonymised) channel, provided one is disciplined about what one watches, and is part of a group of co-conscious individuals using YouTube. I suppose it's an instance of Domain Transfer. See Lori on Goldfish Intelligence.

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This was the mechanism by which I was able to gather information from public YouTube videos, by recognising the content and, I presume, being part of a community with common interests and the capacity for discerning good from bad sources of information. See Ian Grant's Sunset Weather Report.

Another example of the effectiveness of the channel is given by Lana Del Rey's use of alternate cover graphics (see, e.g. Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness and Lana Del Rey - Sad Girl) to send messages via her fan base, which she talks about here:

So who are these young women who know the songs are more than just some pretty words that sound good? Well, nobody knows! But what we do know is that there is only one reality and it is all human knowledge combined, and shared through individuals communicating together. That's what The Foundation is. See Ian Grant's Weather Report and Ian Grant's Weather Report yesterday. Now this sort of mechanism could (and I argue that it should) be used in Panquake and/or any social network technology, because if any network is going to scale globally then it is going to have to use AI to filter and organize/prioritize messages. But it has to be done transparently, and users need to be able, at least in principle, to understand how it works, and to be able to control it themselves, because this is far too potent to be something that could be co-opted for abuse by vested interests. See Academy of Ideas - Do We Live in a Brave New World? which was posted the first day I arrived in Mexico.

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