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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Apr 2019
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    Trying to adapt hype cycle into a weirding cycle. It always ends in a plateau of boringness. An asymptote of uninterestingness. Most weirding is artificial mystique that eventually wears off, on top of some squalid shittiness that doesn’t unless actively removed.pic.twitter.com/6pSNmAavVr

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      1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Apr 2019
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        Normalcy is generally mildly interesting, because most real things provoke shallow curiosity. Secular weirding is asymptotically mildly boring because it is either not real (an artifact of FUD) or an unsolvable existential threat that’s too anxiety inducing to be interesting

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      2. Science Banana‏ @literalbanana 1 Apr 2019
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        I was moved by this on the lost void of nowhere and the boringness of ubiquitous goodhttps://blackribbonaward.wordpress.com/2019/04/01/going-nowhere/ …

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Apr 2019
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        The universe is at least mildly interesting because it is at least slightly evil

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      1. Jaron Collis‏ @jaroncollis 1 Apr 2019
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        "They had been Promotionaries, on their respective sides of the Wars (which were not, of course, between Good and Evil at all, as non-combatants of every species always assumed, but between Banality and Interest)." -- Iain Banks, Walking on Glass

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Apr 2019
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        Got on this bunny trail after reading something (possibly by Orwell?) on how dictators like to give long, boring speeches on purpose

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 1 Apr 2019
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        Doesn’t require an individual human dictator. A situational Gregory like Brexit can do the trick it seems. Theresa May is no dictator but the Brexit headspace is dictatorially boring. An interminable boring speech by a powerful but antiinteresting borg.https://samkriss.com/2019/03/30/on-being-bored-of-brexit/ …

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      1. i wanna be sublated‏ @crossslide 1 Apr 2019
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        how does this get superimposed on tech hype cycles, e.g., are these cultural cycles something that happens once technical underpinnings have already passed the peak + trough?

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      2. R_Ganesh‏ @r_ganesh 1 Apr 2019
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        Those who support/popularize initially and those who criticize a bit later help reduce the cycle duration. Can this be a conscious act with the intention to accelerate reaching the plateau of boringness? 1/

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      3. R_Ganesh‏ @r_ganesh 1 Apr 2019
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        Conversely ignoring popularity or refusing to deign to attack something actually prolongs its weirding lifespan 2/2

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