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the gradient-descented normie - by Celeste 🌱

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It has just occured to me that a massive amount of children will discover that santa is not real by asking ChatGPT awesome quote someone gets it Like my most unhinged post I ever made, it all started because of a vimothee chalamet video. He used the term mimetic desire (the idea that humans desire things not because they intrinsically desire them but they see others desiring them) and something kinda clicked for me the second I saw the term which led to me frantically writing this very blogpost. The idea that exists in my mind may not map 1:1 with the actual concept as popularely conceived of, but this is mine. To illustrate what I mean, we can use the very simple example of being “pro vs anti AI” on a y-axis and “politically left vs politically right” on an x-axis. (It’s obvious that these cluster somewhat.) The actual graph might look something like this Now my point is that because social media algorithms, and how human beings communicate, if you exist outside these 2 clusters, you

Like my most unhinged post I ever made, it all started because of a vimothee chalamet video. He used the term mimetic desire (the idea that humans desire things not because they intrinsically desire them but they see others desiring them) and something kinda clicked for me the second I saw the term which led to me frantically writing this very blogpost. The idea that exists in my mind may not map 1:1 with the actual concept as popularely conceived of, but this is mine. To illustrate what I mean, we can use the very simple example of being “pro vs anti AI” on a y-axis and “politically left…

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