The Seal Manifesto: Against the Ephemeral
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The Seal Manifesto: Against the Ephemeral
I. The End of the Scroll
For a decade, we have lived in the Age of the Vapor. We post into the void, chasing a heartbeat of attention that vanishes by morning. Our thoughts are rented to servers we don't own, managed by algorithms that don't care, and deleted as easily as they were typed.
We have traded Legacy for Latency.
II. The Inscription
Seal is the end of the "Post." We do not "post"; we Inscribe.
When you write here, you are not just making noise; you are adding a verse to your own personal canon. Every word is written to your local disk first. Every thought is signed with your own key.
Once it is Sealed, it is yours. It is a piece of history that no corporation can "un-write."
III. The Weight of Words
If a thought isn't worth keeping for a century, is it worth saying today?
By treating microblogging like Scripture, we return gravity to the conversation. We replace the "Infinite Scroll" with the Permanent Record. We don't build feeds; we build Codexes.
IV. The Courier, Not the Master
Your data lives with you. Our service is merely the Courier—the mailer that carries your sealed verses into the atmosphere of the world. We cannot change what you have said. We cannot hide your history. We are the pipe; you are the source.
V. Witness the Truth
We believe in a social web where:
- Ownership is local.
- History is immutable.
- Truth is signed.
Stop scrolling. Start Inscribing.
Seal your legacy.
2012年,在懵逼之中写下了《我的信息危机》,当年激发了些许讨论。
也正是那一年,Hinton 带着大弟子 Alex,Ilya,去 ILSVRC 踢馆拔得头筹,这场年度比赛背后是ImageNet,李飞飞趴了几千万张Flickr照片+tag,找三哥在 Mechanical Turk 挨个标成题库去考验各种古法编程手搓的分类器。
AlexNet靠两张NVIDIA GTX 580 3GB显卡,用224×224分辨率打败有史以来所有选手,在比赛中大幅度领先,一举成名。这场对全世界,全人类,全历史造成的震荡一直持续到今天。
当年我写到,输入越来越多,输出越来越少;过多信息时效化;碎片化;信噪比极低,这些问题似乎在AI时代……居然引刃而解了?
我渴望一个SNS,隔绝与hivemind的各种hype,又能自洽,这一点可能还需努力,于是就有了这篇 manifesto。
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