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Started by Syt, December 06, 2015, 01:55:02 PM

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LaCroix

#2940
January 06, 2017, 11:53:33 AM
Quote from: frunk on January 05, 2017, 01:44:15 PM
Does this explain all of Facebook.

Costly Signaling

QuoteThis connects to meme propagation in an interesting way. Memes that everyone agree with typically don't spread very far because they don't signal anything about the sender. Nobody is tweeting that "2+2=4." But controversial memes make a statement. They cause people with an opposing view to respond with opposing memes. As CGP Grey beautifully explained, opposing memes synergistically help each other to spread. They also create a cost for the senders in the form of antagonistic pushback from believers in the opposing meme. But from the view of costly signalling, this is good! If you have enemies attacking you for your beliefs, you better demonstrate your belief and commitment by spreading them even more! Both sides get this boost of reliable signalling and are motivated to intensify meme wars.

wtf. does the author not understand memes?

grumbler

#2941
January 06, 2017, 06:43:08 PM
Quote from: LaCroix on January 06, 2017, 11:53:33 AM
wtf. does the author not understand memes?

I'd say he understands it better than you, since he wrote more paragraphs about them than you could write words.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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LaCroix

#2942
January 06, 2017, 06:51:29 PM
 :hmm: but only like two paras were about memes

garbon

#2943
January 06, 2017, 06:55:54 PM
Quote from: LaCroix on January 06, 2017, 06:51:29 PM
:hmm: but only like two paras were about memes

Paras? Seriously?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

DGuller

#2944
January 06, 2017, 06:59:23 PM
I find Yi's nicknames to be more comprehensible than any of LaCroix's posts.

LaCroix

#2945
January 06, 2017, 07:01:06 PM
Quote from: garbon on January 06, 2017, 06:55:54 PMParas? Seriously?

yea. you know, those walls of text

garbon

#2946
January 06, 2017, 07:07:05 PM
Quote from: LaCroix on January 06, 2017, 07:01:06 PM
Quote from: garbon on January 06, 2017, 06:55:54 PMParas? Seriously?

yea. you know, those walls of text

Oh you mean a grumbler post?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

11B4V

#2947
January 06, 2017, 08:52:52 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Admiral Yi

#2948
January 07, 2017, 03:35:59 AM
I think the meter's off on the last line. :nerd:

garbon

#2949
January 08, 2017, 06:10:23 AM
Quotemost cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#2950
January 08, 2017, 07:09:56 AM
Not everyone can be Krusty or Baskets.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

#2951
January 08, 2017, 08:53:25 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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DontSayBanana

#2952
January 08, 2017, 10:38:14 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 07, 2017, 03:35:59 AM
I think the meter's off on the last line. :nerd:

Not so much the meter as syllabic wonkiness- somewhere along the line, a troche and an iamb got swapped.

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TRUMPty DUMPty WANTed a WALL
SWORE (hold a beat) MEXico'd PAY for it ALL
BUT once elECted, reVERsed what he'd SAID
NOW wants to STICK us with THE bill inSTEAD.

It's the unnatural stressing of the word "the" that throws it off, not the actual meter. </even bigger :nerd:>
Experience bij!

11B4V

#2953
January 11, 2017, 08:35:36 AM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

11B4V

#2954
January 12, 2017, 12:41:42 AM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".
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