the moment i see two people respond with the same joke in response to a tweet, that joke is dead to me and so are those people
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We're all deeply influenced by memetic (& many other) forces beyond our understanding. Here we are, using the same set of 37 alphanumeric (+ space) characters! The same 44 phonemes. Etc. Is there a difference in grotesquerie?
(BTW, I love your observation! Related: I s'times think of Reddit as a kind of efficient market for all possible obvious responses to something. Just scroll down & all the obvious comments will be made somewhere. It's a machine for generating the convex hull of obvious responses.
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I like this description! Thinking of reddit as containing all obvious strategies for gaining karma, or for that matter thinking of the internet as containing all obvious strategies for gaining attention.
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(Well, the extreme points, and some interior points as well. You have to interpolate the rest yourself...)
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Super interesting. I wouldn't say this is ideal, but it is perhaps valuable. A memetic sonar or survey.
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