(2025-04-07) Rao Contra Cozyweb

Venkatesh Rao is now over the Cozyweb. The cozyweb has a weird rhyming version of fomo going on. Because each island is small, memetic competition is not efficient. It’s actually like a high tariff regime discourse. So stuff like the AI 2027 report and the Abundance discourse which would probably not even make the top 10 in an efficient public meme market like Twitter circa 2015 feel like they’re at oppressively must-read level.

Main characters in small ponds.

I honestly don’t like it. It is stupidifying. The cozyweb is nearly as stupid as when only trad media could opine on stuff.

Memes should compete in discourses big enough to properly evaluate and price them. Now I can’t trust the memetic “price” of an idea (for which the incidence rate is a good proxy).

I now wish I could have come up with a derogatory or snarky term instead. Cozyweb sounds cute and warm. It’s really the stupidweb. Frog-in-well web.


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