Few things have impressed on me how intensely unfunny most people are most of the time as:
1) Year and a half doing security for a events, pubs etc.
2) Twitter jokes
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People drunk on likes and drunk on booze have broadly similar motivational circuitry, methinks.
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Snark aside, it's eye-opening to hear the same shitty joke 5+ times in one night, from different people.
Most of our behaviours are scripted. Many of the scripts are bad.
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When I was younger and more arrogant (yes, I know), I used to think I could get a pretty good read on anyone within a minute or two.
Hugely overestimated how good I was at it, of course, but it's accurate-ish until you meet good liars. People are predictable. Very predictable.
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Personal branding and all that creates a very deceptive impression that people are more unique than they are.
Almost all uniqueness is top level. Everything else is more or less clustred, noded. Your personality is a barrel of prepackaged goods, and the choices are weighted.
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Every time you meet someone, you're meeting subsets and archetypes of other people.
Billions of human-level imprints.
(Fewer) billions of gender-level imprints.
Millions of culture-level imprints.
Billions/millions of personality-level imprints
Etc.
Most of it is very samey.
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This thread, like most of my threads, reminds me of something a friend of me told me, way back in high school:
"I don't think I've met anyone else who was able to change the topic seven times in the span of one sentence."
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(Yeah, no, I'm aware it wasn't a compliment.)