Status Game
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Sam Altman: Human desire and status games are limitless
“I do sort of think that human demand, desire, ability to play status games, whatever is, is like, it seems pretty limitless.”
Eugene Wei: Primary mechanism of network growth is status game creation
“Status as a service posits, there are two things that explain a lot of this. One is that humans are just hardwired to seek status, or as you would call it, status, which sounds more classy. The second is that humans... Will tend to gravitate towards the most e…”
Eugene Wei: Social media feeds scaled status games to unprecedented levels
“The feed and these algorithms and social media as a concept, essentially, the one thing they have done is they've elevated the status game to just a scale we've never had in human history.”
Balaji: Early social networks became zero-sum status games without crypto value transfer
“Social networks were invented and scaled 10 years, seven years ish before cryptocurrency. And so because of that you could only transfer status online And not value. And what that means is that everything basically boiled down to status games, leaderboard, wha…”