Reid Hoffman: prediction

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…“Pull out the 20 best tweets. Save me time.” What happens to Twitter in this world? Are they themselves disintermediated, just as Twitter disintermediated a lot of blogs? You see what I’m saying. It’s a free rider problem of sorts. You may be cutting out some key levels of infrastructure. I don’t know. I think, ultimately, my guess would be it’s not, because to reflect back a point that I heard you make — but I now plagiarize you shamelessly — which is, look, we have these AIs that play chess better than human beings. No one watches AIs playing chess, but we do watch, now more than ever, human beings playing chess. I think there’s a little bit of the human beings tweeting thing, which, even though you’re getting a summary, people may still want to go tweet themselves, watch other people tweet. I would guess, no, that it doesn’t get completely disintermediated, but — It might just send me the 10 best links. I could email you a Twitter link, but if no one’s reading Twitter, no one’s seeing the ads. Maybe there’s one bot that pays a fee to access Twitter, gets the blue check, and then just mails around links to others? I don’t know. It seems maybe not problematic, but it will be a big change of some kind.…

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