Is this info-theoretically possible? A fake-out book/essay it is hard to pretend to have read, but which can attract its intended audience.
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one strategy: terms which have apparently clear meanings, but totally different meanings in the text (or apparent/actual affect load)
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reminds me of people quoting polonius' speech as sincere deep wisdom
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Who? What speech? My classical grecoroman education is non-existent.
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ah so a strategy would be to include a highly quotable/tweetable idea in the text, embedded in a refutation
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I once got a ton of likes by quoting the "fox news is a mind virus" part of moldbug on facebook
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friend once trolled me with excerpts from unabomber manifesto. Fortunately my spidey-sense tingled
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such a work would qualify as a joke under the Hurley model if experienced first as tweetable bits, then as the real thing
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I think ribbonfarm might qualify as a joke if people start with me and then find you, or vice versa 😂
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