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The Permaweird with Venkatesh Rao
Interdependence
The Horror Mode and the Attention Economy
The horror mode helped make everything okay. It like brought everything to human level. We weird got kind of rinsed to where it was like, everything has to be like, just just weird enough to catch your attention. The ability to conjure up monsters from our own subconscious has always existed pre technology as well. Technology has like, I don't know, poured oil on that capability in a very interesting way.
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