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wondering about everything • coding & cat-herding at @makerdao • existence precedes essence—or does it? ☯

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    1. Matthew Pirkowski‏ @MattPirkowski 6 Feb 2019
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      What's worse than academic citation rings? Twitter pseudo-life-coach mention rings. The content is ever so stale. You can only rip off the stoics so many times, fellas...

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    2. ρ∧α‏ @moritzset 7 Feb 2019
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      Stop it, you. This is not ripping off, its bringing storefront into the forefront of the up front. In bubble econ we need mention rings, this is how we shift nonexistent currency to nonexistent value. How else mom and pop will get paid smarty, how?!

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    3. Matthew Pirkowski‏ @MattPirkowski 7 Feb 2019
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      There's value in densely connected networks which act to self-accelerate a given message, sure. But at some point, those who observe that mimicry brings with it economic opportunity pathologize the pattern. Thus we get a veritable bacterial plume of mimetic monoculture. Bleh.

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      Lawrus‏ @levity 8 Feb 2019
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      There’s a valuable social function in repeating over and over that which one thinks is most important. If it’s stale to you, no need to keep reading it. But after all, our species is constantly creating new people who haven’t heard it yet.

      11:06 AM - 8 Feb 2019
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        2. Matthew Pirkowski‏ @MattPirkowski 8 Feb 2019
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          I understand the value of repetition. It's at the core of Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication, after all. What I'm reacting to is the way in which it's naively mimicked in service of self aggrandizement, rather than in service of any genuine goal. It's deeply ironic.

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        3. Lawrus‏ @levity 8 Feb 2019
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          Self-aggrandizement is a genuine goal :) it may not be the “holiest” of goals, but, hey, there’s no accounting for taste

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        2. Lawrus‏ @levity 8 Feb 2019
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          Yes it can be excessive—& if the bacterial plume consumes its food source (attention) without setting up sustainable symbiosis, it dies off. But there’s a reason e.g. church services repeat weekly. People forget; lives change; the same aphorism takes on new meaning in new context

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        3. Matthew Pirkowski‏ @MattPirkowski 8 Feb 2019
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          To be clear, I'm completely on board with pragmatic repetition in service of a higher goal. To further extend your metaphorical extension, I'm merely asserting that from where I'm sitting, the plume appears far closer to exponential consumption than to sustainable symbiosis.

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