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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by Spivak on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:07PM (#33887807)
Yeah, I'm surprised on a forum like this people are using it as an opportunity to be like "ugh kids these days in $current_year seeking attention" and not "holy shit this is fascinating." Social media turned "picking up an accent" up to 11 in a way that actually manifests in tangible problems.
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Re:Stop that It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass soci... by baandam on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:56AM (#33893800)
IMO the problem is that complex systems is not a field that is taken seriously yet. It got off to a bad start years back with that shitty James Gleick Chaos book.

We just don't have enough people thinking about this as a SIR model on a social graph to spark the conversation. We literally lack the critical mass of people understanding the language. Without the language the thoughts don't exist.

I am sure a 100 years from now people will look back at us as completely insane to be letting social contagions spread around to children as random graphs on a network.

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