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Who? Who feels Goodman?? D:

There has been some discussion about why social memes seem to spread so quickly through society and also why it is that they always seem to change just enough to remain interesting, while still keeping their essential features.

I’ve got a few theories about that, but the big one is this: spreading a meme correctly gives some sort of psychological payoff to the person who spreads it.

So spreading exciting things feels good, even when the things you are spreading are downright horrible.

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If this offends you then you have no sense of humour.

Hello friends.

I’m afraid I am going to have to take back some of the nice things I said about 4chan. The first reason for this is that the posting of child pornography, that I had thought to be an occasional abberation, actually appears to be a daily event. While the moderators do their best to stamp it out when they find it the sheer volume of content on the site makes this almost impossible.

The second reason relates to the in-jokes that the site is famous for. Unfortunately one of these in-jokes basically boils down to this: whenever someone says something, ANYTHING, about black people it is a signal to all the trolls to come out from under the bridge and post as much offensive, racist content as possible. Now the fact that this happens is hardly surprising. But what annoys me is the degree to which it is an entrenched part of the culture of the site.

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If you know who made this please let me know, because they are awesome.

Check out this video, which is about 150meg.

Summary:

Video is from Academic Earth, a website that puts up free recordings of some of the world’s finest academics lecturing on a wide range of subjects.

This video I’ve linked to is an introductory lecture by Krishna Shenoy that explains how their new machine to person interface works.

In plain English: they wanna put a chip in your brain, so that you can talk to computers.

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