@KevinSimler that would require culture appropriation to be a thing
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@KevinSimler in a sense complaints about cultural appropriation are an attempt to enclose the commons
@drethelin btw I've never used the phrase "cultural appropriation" before... not a concept I'm trying to defend so much as understand
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@drethelin What about "appropriation" (scare-quotes) of nerd culture by non-nerds? Is that an example worth thinking about? -
@KevinSimler the biggest problem there is the feminist war on the concept of fake nerds. Sabotages costlier signals with no replacement - 8 more replies
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@KevinSimler I think the steel man of it is just that value IS lost by early adopters when something is no longer a credible signal of X -
@KevinSimler eg dreadlocks becoming popular means they're a noisier signal of having gone through Rastafarian fasts and so on - 8 more replies
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