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Devin Friedman visits a Silicon Valley startup incubator for GQ and talks to the would-be architects of the internet’s “social layer” and “game layer.” The social layer captures our social activity as exploitable productive labor; the game layer then strives to increase that labor’s productivity.

I’d finally found what most of us are looking for: a place where people  would listen to us and congratulate us on our opinions about everything.

Devin Friedman visits a Silicon Valley startup incubator for GQ and talks to the would-be architects of the internet’s “social layer” and “game layer.” The social layer captures our social activity as exploitable productive labor; the game layer then strives to increase that labor’s productivity.

I’d finally found what most of us are looking for: a place where people would listen to us and congratulate us on our opinions about everything.

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