The idea that culture is something that "just happens" and not something produced by very motivated parties is easily the most mistaken belief I had in my formative years.
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Replying to @generativist @JacksonKernion
In some sense, though, culture is what “just happens” at the confluence of many such competing influences. No person gets to merely enact their cultural preferences.
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Replying to @RealtimeAI @JacksonKernion
Yes, I think that was *partly* why I rejected it strongly. I made an either lazy or motivated leap from "it's too big and complex for anyone to directly and substantively manipulate with a high probability of success" to "it just happens."
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Which is dangerous because lots of people are trying to manipulate it and their desires and collective ability to do so successfully are not uniform.
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Again, like you said, it's a very complex process. But the production doesn't need to arc towards some happy {next , end}-point, and "it just happens" sometimes obscures that.
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