I'm Increasingly Resistant to New Things

[luka]

definitely yes.

 

[version]

toktok

Boomer.

 

[vimothy]

I actually have a toktok account, tyvm

 

[luka]

the whole post reads like English is his second language. hes obviously drunk again.

 

[craner]

At least when I was drunk I remembered to use prepositions.

 

[version]

ealy 2000s,

It's like Oliver Reed on Aspel.

 

[IdleRich]

I thought that the Long Tail was about how you could survive even if you were niche cos the internet was big enough for a market to exist and support artists who would previously have just had to fade away. Although I never read it so could be wrong.

 

[luka]

which was kind of thing business execs like to give other business execs impression that they read. and it described situation

 

[shiels]

At least when I was drunk I remembered to use prepositions.

I don’t know if I like prepositions dropped. Written sometimes yes. Spoken like Americans do it I don’t know “Couple times.” “We’ll finish fall 2020.”

 

[shiels]

Something increasing we’re resistant to

 

[craner]

which was kind of thing business execs like to give other business execs impression that they read. and it described situation

 

[luka]

i dont even know what a preposition is.

 

[sus]

Wonder whether someone's totted up all the Instagram-related deaths. People falling off buildings, into the Grand Canyon etc trying to get a selfie.

You treat this like it's a bad thing, this is just "selection"

 

[shiels]

Not using doesn’t necessarily deplete comprehension does it? Sometimes might even save time. they’re the first things we drop when we’re drunk. Or dying, nobody uses prepositions with their dying wish and rightly so

 

[vimothy]

prepositions are a thing ppl sometimes mistake for definite article

 

[constant escape]

I have friends that tell me it shows them things they didnt even know they were into. The algorithm will toss them into some random niche community and it will instantly register with them. Youtube does a similar thing.

A very cool point I hadn't considered before. Expedited individuation.

The socio-cultural impact (of certain algorithmic machines) would be felt as "society is getting more and more individualistic" - that is, the system is driving them into finer and more specific individuals. Niches within niches and so on. Circles being topographically placed upon one another, from wide base to narrow top, but with some margin of wiggle room and variation between placements. The don't all look the same.

Normalized gradation of binaries, which does have an egalitarian impact. Also, more markets.

Perhaps what becomes pathologized is the non-schizo, who dumbly stays fixed on one ineluctable trajectory.

i remember this book, the long tail, from ealy 2000s, which was kind of thing business execs like to give other business execs impression that they read. and it described situation in which certain kinds of products became subject to a "power law" dynamic whereby there were a few winners (as producers) and many losers (the long tail). for example, at one point, if you were best singer in your village, you might be locally famous. but then, after development of records and CDs, you no longer seem impressive compared to best singers in world. toktok seems like extension of this long tail model to individual popularity: now there is a power law operating at the level of a global school playground

Precisely, and that is the stage on which our eyes are getting fixed. An ever more optimized selection pool, yielding procuring an ever higher magnitude of winner, the one nearest todays optimal point, the one that informs tomorrows optimal point.

 

[luka]

prepositions are a thing ppl sometimes mistake for definite article

Craner is getting his grammar corrected again. First Corpsey having to rewrite his entire essay for him now a paralytic Vimothy is pulling him up on it.

 

[vimothy]

Precisely, and that is the stage on which our eyes are getting fixed. An ever more optimized selection pool, yielding procuring an ever higher magnitude of winner, the one nearest todays optimal point, the one that informs tomorrows optimal point.

the logic of the recommendation engine - where the winners win bc they are already winning

 

[constant escape]

Awesome.

 

[constant escape]

...but how do we harness it?