I proposed this as a joke just months before the Great Weirding kicked off with the Harambe affair. Little did I know we would actually desperately need it 7y later.
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A renaissance is basically a persistent non-dumb serendipity condition that resists easy mimetic virality. You have to earn entrance into the casino even if you’re exceptionally well-positioned
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Infrastructure at the sublime level of definition is about paving the cowpaths of transient serendipity to try and make the conditions persist
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You guys have no idea how long I’ve spent spiraling in towards this definition 🤣
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About 80% of my active attention is devoted to keeping mostly useless lines of thought going literally over years
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I like to mix up shit I’ve thought about for years, sometimes in 100s of pages of notes, with shitposts I think up in seconds from a cold start. In both cases you get a tweet. It’s a way to counteract sunk-cost effects. If you can’t tell them apart, 1000x effort is irrelevant.
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