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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      Seinfeld help wanted... wasn't there a seinfeld episode where he's trying to watch a tape recorded big game and avoiding conversations about the outcome? Which episode was that? Or am I thinking of a different show?

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    2. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 19 Mar 2019
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      You know, we can laugh at this ("VHS tapes.. time shift much?") but there is a really deep metaphysical problem that timeshifting presents to the sense-maker. It used to be that timeshift was due to geography - yours, or the event's - and a limitation of analog broadcast era.

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    3. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 19 Mar 2019
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      But we now live in an infosphere that doesn't attempt to preserve temporal coherence for anyone. Especially problematic b/c Internet has infinite perfect memory. So there is no pervasive driver to snap us into a coherent (albeit fragmented) "present".

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    4. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 19 Mar 2019
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      Rather, we each get our own staggered diverging trace through the infinite memory space. So not only are we pulled into filter bubbles of content/sentiment, but we are actually cut adrift from an old reliable driver of coherence & consensus reality: the gradient of time & memory.

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    5. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 19 Mar 2019
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      And your reward for reading this random thread: The episode you're looking for is, "The Seinfeld Chronicles", actually the pilot.http://www.espn.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=5233983 …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 19 Mar 2019
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      You just guessed 1 piece of the broader argument I'm trying to put together in this piece I'm writing for which I needed the example :) Yes... atemporality started in ~1980 for television once cable and VCR time shifting became ubiquitous

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        2. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 19 Mar 2019
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          Oh, wonderful! Look forward to it. Related to this is "chaos pressure" - the amount of stuff that "needs to be made sense of". With atemporality & global information network, we are constantly faced with the full pressure of everything, everywhere. We've lost "here", and "now".

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        3. Peter Wang‏ @pwang 19 Mar 2019
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          Those are two of the most brainstem-innate ways to form real tribes and real conviviality. So we have to cobble together affinities across the noosphere, based on synchrony of memories and memes. There's no stickiness, nor any gradient of real selection or fitness.

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        2. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 20 Mar 2019
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          random Consumer Experience anecdote for you - my TV doesn’t have local channels directly on it, I have to access them by picking “tv” as an option. I rarely, rarely pick this. Most of my TV time is playing PS4, or watching Netflix, or YouTube, or a movie via Google Videos...pic.twitter.com/IfNMjH3y86

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        3. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 20 Mar 2019
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          And sometimes, rarely, I do find myself fatigued from having to choose what to watch. The programming on my local tv is pretty crap, but sometimes I go there just to not think. I kinda wish I could subscribe to an autoplaying feed of good stuff that I didn’t have to choose

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