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As AI, Nuclear and Space Industries create abundance of labor, energy and resources, the scarcest resource now is the ability to create new knowledge.
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The new internet allows a new era of entrepreneurship which we call cultural capitalism in which content creators and curators make content, communities and products based on unique cultures
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The economy of the new internet is based on the fundamentally scarce resource of attention
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The new internet needs to provide new primitives for truth-seeking so that individuals and communities can contribute to finding truth for themselves.
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To bring the power of blockchains to mainstream internet applications which are data-heavy, we need to shift from the current paradigm of general-purpose blockchains to application-specific blockchains.
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A variety of blockchain approaches are trying to solve the data bottleneck of blockchains ranging from modular approaches like Farcaster to integrated approach like DeSo
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While blockchains have been long touted as the solution to decentralize the internet, they have struggled beyond financial applications because of heavy data storage needs of the internet
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Since the new internet protocols need money to store the global repository of data, it needs to have a governance model of this funding.
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The new internet paradigm needs a design in which content is not stored with the apps but rather on a public, global and shared database
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A new internet is needed to address the growing monopolization of the current internet and lack of compensation for the internet's participants.
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The original internet protocols just transmitted data but did not store or index it. This lack of storage allowed big tech companies to fill that void.
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Despite our rapid progress in information technology, information protocols haven't upgraded in 3 decades. DeSo is the first new information protocol upgrade fit for today's times.
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In a world where AI can create products out of any idea and in a world where DeSo protects ideators, we will see a return to ideators.
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In a world where AI can create products out of any idea and in a world where DeSo protects ideators, we will see a return to ideators.
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In a world where AI can create products out of any idea and in a world where DeSo protects ideators, we will see a return to ideators.
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In a world where AI can create products out of any idea and in a world where DeSo protects ideators, we will see a return to ideators.
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By allowing capital to be invested at the idea stage instead of execution stage, we improve the basic innovation cycle of the society
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With the ability to invest in every word and see the social sentiment of the whole world for a word, DeSo makes investing in ideas possible.
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By providing a clear trail of ideas up to their source and the ability to pay gate content, DeSo provides IP rights and incentives for original thinking
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LLMs can create infinite combinations of things it has seen but it can't come up with original things. Thus original thinking becomes the most important work in the age of AI
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By bringing on-chain content, capital and communities, DeSo enables large scale value creation on the internet instead of just entertainment
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By combining content, connections and finance, DeSo allows the creation of economically driven online communities the likes of which we haven't seen before on the internet.
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Despite all tech behind DeSo, it still remains true to its original mission of being digital clout or a quantification of your reputation.
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Verifying content and being able to curate your own content are two superpowers of DeSo that everyone must exercise
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TradSo allowed real user name and real faces while keeping the database closed. DeSo reverses by keeping the database open but using psuedonymous names instead.
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