*falls into a reddit hole* *emerges 3 years later* Turns out we are living in the greatest folklore golden age in our species' history
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Almost entirely located on topical boards where people tell stories about their lives "for true" - r/folklore is boring & dead
Part of the fun is the negotiation of what people accept as true or deny, what is moved to fiction boards, deleted, praised, derided
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And comments - people responding with stories that show they get the "gist" of the story, Robert Schank's turing test equivalent
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Similar narrative elements recur because 1) people are *reminded* of similar real stories 2) they're successful, so added to fiction
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Both plausible mechanisms of narrative evolution
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Connecting threads - wonder how much human trafficking myths emerge from anxiety over human value (or lack thereof)https://twitter.com/literalbanana/status/701951786878263296 …
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@literalbanana are stories about human trafficking primarily myths? - 2 more replies
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