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ok friendsthe internet is like a jungle, full of tasty berries but also threatswe can build tools that give us ~jungle eyes~ that spot psyopshoweveri have a fancy ai job offeri would rather build the open memetics institute thoif we can raise 50k-100k https://t.co/VS428rhJue
what I really want right now is a "nooscope"a tool that lets you look at the realm of ideas https://t.co/sViBz4YJ41
could do it by1. building fast primitives: embeddings, clustering, network diffusion, entity recognition, etc2. manually detecting known stories like the rise of jhanas, fractal NYC, 4 waves of postrats3. using what we learn to build tools and "memetic weather forecasts" https://t.co/KRPSgeNvrs
we already started!we built the community archive to bootstrap our own dataand then we built all sorts of cool tools on top of the data, and they're public!https://t.co/IWoPAuwarp
if you'd like to contributehttps://t.co/V2nC3rIOzL
detailed proposal: https://t.co/Ckk4AmOzsR
@RamVasuthevan that's very generous and based Ram! Here's our opencollective donation link:https://t.co/xCRwpOqdso
@ChrisChipMonk https://t.co/LUjdFaDgUa
@theproteindance wanna join the discord? https://t.co/PLoVEaHu03
@ChrisChipMonk scapple! https://t.co/BKxcBKOzdr
@exgenesis I have been watching memes spread within the peculiar constraints of YouTube shorts. eg see the emergence of boobs-plus-guitar/gun/car genre. all fun and games. however I'm sure there is some astroturfed algo rigging. eg kendrik is EVERYWHERE no matter how much I downvote