Each stream is a vector. You can compute the distance/difference between two vectors. To the extent two vectors are the same, they are one identity.

That's not useful. Online identity is useful, especially when attaching reputation to it.

What makes a post "interesting" is when it lies at the intersection of many otherwise "different" vectors. These are the posts that belong on the front page.

If Tom and Jerry are twin brothers whose streams are always and forever identical, does it really matter if I treat them like a single "identity" in the context of MemeStreams?

Your idea does present an interesting angle. I would love to see people grouped together with their meme-clones. "You are not a unique beautiful snowflake."

Besides, the whole democracy/popularity angle is stale. Who needs it?

Are you trolling me?

If you want to attract venture capital, you need to think posthuman. When the AIs on the Internet outnumber the humans, then what are you going to do?

Then I will move to another plane of existence and happily leave all this bullshit behind.

I can just see myself issuing a pitch based on that in a meeting, backed with a presentation containing robots and crap. "To get MemeStreams, you gotta think POSTHUMAN! We are all one big machine! No identities! Man is merely an information router in one big network! We need to tune the world onto the universal stream of the global meme! Think wires in the back of our heads! Science-reality overdrive! We don't need flying cars in a world where your home office can be the center of your social universe!"

I don't think so Jeremy. I'm still thinking more William Gibson than Ann Rand.

RE: Re: Reengineering MemeStreams for our posthuman future