it's like. if the topic is cows and you say something about cows, that's normal. but if the topic is something else,
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if the topic is something else, then you come across as a person who cares about cows to a weird degree. so if you want to say something
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if you want to say something about cows, because you're weirdly obsessed with cows, but you don't want to seem like a weirdly obsessed with
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you don't want to seem like a weirdly obsessed with cows person, you have to kind of find a sequence of steps from the current topic to cows
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because it's not weird to make a single association step. that's what normal people do. but other people are also playingso it's adversarial
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maybe they're weirdly obsessed with pigs. so then you get cooperation dynamics where you help each other find a segue into the goats topic
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it's like the problem of not having an introduction to a person but for talking about instead of talking to. it's very dual in a way
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but it's a difficult game to play for sure. i haven't found a good segue into my pet topic and i've been trying for 10k tweets now
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topics exist directly in people's explicit plans for what they were going to talk about but also kind of free floating as signaling centers
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if you plan out the topics in advance, you're making people play bad strategic moves. it's not as much fun for them
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i don't think i even remember what my pet topic is at this point. maybe the real pet topic is the friends we made along the way
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