#social #to-digest >You can choose to see social groups at all scales as run ning a distributed computation across the social web. You can choose to view that process as generating an agent the intelligent social web dict and guide each person's behavior. who tries to pre >The social web offers each person a trade: prioritize making the scene work, and you'll be included in it. In fact, the web is the aggregate efforts of all the people who have accepted that trade. And basically everyone we know about accepts this trade. >Everything about yourself that you have conscious access to is subject to your role as part of the social web. If you try to defy this, then your fate will play through your defiance. out >Room for interpretation in your role in the scene means your script has room to change. This is slack in the so cial web. ~ Michel "Valentine" Smith, [[lesswrong.com]]