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Words are Hard.rotαʇoɹ https://t.co/w7nmNK6jTN
Wordcel is going to trend again because Peter Theil is talking about it indirectly.https://t.co/VdU0ZlRWIw
I used to be able to predict what pmarca was going to retweet and post messages in the comments before he did.https://t.co/zxuv4bUEh0
I'm currently trying to models Musks' model of Theil given Theil supposedly influenced the 'like' on Facebook.https://t.co/JUyaY9a2uo
The neat thing is, my meta model of memetic social contagion is analog to Girard's ideas of mimesis.https://t.co/bzVfiiYn1s
@chrisdancy one of the big reasons why I was able to get a handle on peter theil's ideas is that I was able to reverse engineer the reasoning behind the 'like' button thru a memetic frame instead of the philosophy he was pulling the ideas from.Emotions are transmuted via mimesis & culture.
Which means, I can write an AI prompt that converts whatever I talk about in this space into something Theil would say.https://t.co/ng0KYyTFxb
Do you think a fish is aware of the water he swims within?https://t.co/zfYUTLPxSJ
Do you think we can teach AI to do magic tricks?https://t.co/3isDuwtet2
"some giant algorithm in the sky"https://t.co/To3EnvQu61
You wouldn't rip off a shitpost without using AI.https://t.co/5Qod34FuSe
> "The ease of listing products without manufacturing them is how we end up with bizarre algorithmic t-shirts [...] Even if they only generate one sale daily per 1,000 listings, that can still be a profitable"https://t.co/6fq71k8o5w https://t.co/qvBDQq41gI
