Note that this venue has very limited food, but they don’t mind if you order food from elsewhere and bring it inside.
Discussion Topic: Subcultures and Cultural Stagnation
Here is an article about cultural stagnation. This particularly article is from an economics and entertainment lens, but I have seen various versions of this argument pop up frequently over the past few years.
Meanwhile, here we are, part of a hyper-specific subculture where communicating in terms of priors does not make you a weirdo. It’s easier than ever to form subcultures around sometimes extremely niche ideas; shouldn’t this accelerate cultural evolution?
As a fun test: ask your favorite LLM what online subculture you belong to based on your conversation history. If it can give a reasonable guess based on solely the way you communicate, should this make us doubt the idea that modern culture is stagnating?
June Meetup
The June meetup will be held on Thursday, June 19th at 7:00 PM.
Location: Irrational Brewing
Note that this venue has very limited food, but they don’t mind if you order food from elsewhere and bring it inside.
Discussion Topic: Subcultures and Cultural Stagnation
Here is an article about cultural stagnation. This particularly article is from an economics and entertainment lens, but I have seen various versions of this argument pop up frequently over the past few years.
Meanwhile, here we are, part of a hyper-specific subculture where communicating in terms of priors does not make you a weirdo. It’s easier than ever to form subcultures around sometimes extremely niche ideas; shouldn’t this accelerate cultural evolution?
As a fun test: ask your favorite LLM what online subculture you belong to based on your conversation history. If it can give a reasonable guess based on solely the way you communicate, should this make us doubt the idea that modern culture is stagnating?