People mention Idiocracy. I mention the telepathic morlocks class in The Time Machine. They say "but that's different!" No: Cultural drift.
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By their memes ye shall know them.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/749867299683835904 …
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I reinvented "outweep" a few days ago, derived of etymology of "explore"... No idea it was already an archaic word.https://twitter.com/TheTedNelson/status/923190902054678528 …
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How many words do I know that I don't know that I know?https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/916017602908090368 …
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Playing together words as a proxy for playing with ideas. Ideas as a proxy for creation. Symbolism of John 1:1?https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/910346555223363584 …
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I must outweep the poetry. Pooling misery into my hands. A metaphor of pain. http://www.rhizome.solutions/2017/10/rhythms-of-poetry.html …
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Have you ever stolen an idea only to have it boosted by someone who's better at selling their properties of words? http://www.rhizome.solutions/2017/11/amphibolic-steal-humanning-of-ideas.html …
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Steeling homophones though.https://twitter.com/NautilusMag/status/929103121476870144 …
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NautilusVerified account @NautilusMagARCHIVE: "English speakers are sanguine about homophony—often blithely, so that they make little attempt to clarify meanings even when the context leaves open the possibility of more than one." http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/is-the-chinese-language-a-superstition-machine …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Seeing nebulous patterns in the languages we use.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/826311343926026240 …
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{quote:"basically the only hobby a sentient organism is likely to have is \"projecting stylized model worlds in mental space\"", author: "
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unfortunately most of us are just hobby sentient organisms
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