the reason we only have 80s Movie Part 25 now is not lack of originality but an excess of it - items of shared culture must be borrowed from a time when such things existed
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originality meaning difference from what's expected - lack of some shared, stable expectations limits the prospects of originality because expectations are part of interestingness
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‘You have to have an office to sneak away from” principle Version I’ve been toying with: Multitemporality requires a temporality to subvert even if nobody lives there-then. Atemporality is when you try to bootstrap time from no-time and fail.
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I’ve been wishing I had an office to sneak away from lately tbh
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Perhaps that’s why fashion stopped in the early 90s too.
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good point! in general it seems like time got weird around then...
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interestingness affordance, some kind of memetic potential energy
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the survival of supposed non-factional, non-niche shared expectations still seems alarming enough that I'd gladly sacrifice interestingness to be rid of it once & for all. Some factions of late last century wrongly thought we chased all that out with fire & sword.
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