Been thinking about "it must be a full moon" style mass behaviours. I notice in my store we'll get "waves" of people acting a certain way
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waves of lunacy (not necessarily moon-correlated) is a pretty typical thing anyone in retail's probably seen regularly
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But I think its pointing at a more general phenomenon. For example, store traffic. Everyone decides to come in at once.
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sometimes you can trace it, like a certain news piece or ad everyone saw that is loosely related to what everyone's after
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nonetheless it seems surprising that a vaguely shared environment elicits very specific nth-order actions
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really makes the "omniscient being taking minor actions to direct major events" character archetype more believable
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im also willing to entertain that its all confirmation bias on my part
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