Part of using social media is just an endless attempt to understand social media. This invisible place where we all talk to each other, it tells you, 200k people saw this thing you said
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That's a drop in the bucket for bigger accounts, but when you say something that radically exceeds your own follower count, it's dizzying. My brain can't begin to conceive of 200k people, let alone larger numbers
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You end up modeling a crowd as a single person, there's no other way to do it, that's the only hardware you have. If you're smart you're able to perceive a few subcrowds, maybe as many as fivehttps://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1034163171454410752 …
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0 HP Lovecraft, Eldritch and Void-Soaked @0x49fa98What you should consider is that even when you do have words for concepts, your mind is small and just like you have Dunbar groups of people, 5 critical people, and Dunbar places, you also have Dunbar ideas, familiar places for your brain https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1025740101970608128 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
Anthropmorphization, pareidolia: When the only tool you have is a mimetic monkey brain optimized for groups of five, everything looks like another monkey "A person" is an interface for an idea, a machine, a movement, a country, an immutable law of nature...
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