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> The term was coined by Eric Weinstein in 2018. Coincidence or intentional? Either way, nice

• hermitcrab 1y ago
  I didn't notice that!
• tptacek 1y ago
  That particular meaning of "audience capture" might be Weinstein's coinage, but the term itself predates that; you can just search Google Scholar to confirm.
  • tsongas4 1y ago
    Mathematicians went nuts trying to invalidate Gödel. Imo similar phenomena to our senses; chasing an endlessly big numbers with no real outcome but growing some number that ostensibly represents an audience but who knows if its real or just numbers on a screen. Religious belief is same biological phenom, chasing endless propagation of the religion. Minds go fractal. It's like Snowcrash but they’re not blank, they speak in tongues, circumlocuting gibberish.
    • hermitcrab 1y ago
      >Mathematicians went nuts trying to invalidate Gödel. But they failed. Gödel's incompleteness theorm is now a widely accepted part of mathematical canon.