The narrative implications of this user-generated web of ideas could also be interesting for authors. What if two characters meet each other by subscribing to each other’s nodes and learning more and more about each other with time? And then they meet in real life and discover “Oh you’re not at all like I imagined”. It’s a tragedy really, because if they hadn’t spent so long before meeting, they wouldn’t have done that very human thing of filling in all those gaps so optimistically. Almost like they were mutually parasocial.
But the important thing is that it’s just text, and rarely images. Because images take up far too much space on the network. See this related idea that’s already been implemented… just without centralized hosting or a subgraph
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
See also the idea of the Semantic Web
In the space of all possible languages, there's a language where this sentence is represented by a single glyph
In the decimal expansion of Pi, there is a substring of 0's and 1's such that the ASCII decoding of that substring is this very string.
This is an excerpt from a book in the Library of Babel.
This is contained in the graph of the cartesian product of the reals with the reals. Equivalently, it’s an element of the powerset of Cartesian space.
