The Greatest Trick You Ever Pulled on Me

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I was really good friends with my cousin when I was kid and we this happened with baseball cards. He would basically like Nemetically hack me to make me want baseball cards and increase their value. If you turn ten toddlers loose in a room that has ten equally cool toys There's one for each of them there. They're not just gonna each choose a toy They're gonna converge on one or two of them. And the craziest thing is that they reinforce each other's desire for the same toy. It literally reinforces it so my I'm an only child So I'll never forget the greatest trick you ever pulled on me.

Luke Burgis joins the NIA boys to discuss Mimetic Desire, Thick vs. Thin Desires & Power of Memes.

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:02:33) - Meme of the Week
(00:04:18) - Jack & Luke’s Collab
(00:06:07) - Visualizing Mimesis
(00:08:48) - Wanting’s Backstory
(00:10:33) - Meme Culture is Everywhere
(00:12:26) - TLDR of Mimetic Desire
(00:14:42) - Examples of Mimetic Desire
(00:18:46) - Mount Rushmore of Meme Masters
(00:22:39) - Role Models vs Models of Desire
(00:25:52) - The Power of Mimetics
(00:27:38) - Thick vs Thin Desires
(00:35:57) - Mimetic Rivalry Explained
(00:37:32) - Mimetic Desire is Natural
(00:40:45) - Optimize for Yourself
(00:48:26) - A.I. and Mimetic Desire
(00:52:51) - Chat GPT vs Bard
(00:53:46) - Generative Art and Society
(00:58:20) - The Stendhal Effect
(01:02:07) - Reacting to Twitter’s “For You” Algorithm
(01:05:17) - How Twitter’s Algorithm Works
(01:13:30) - Reacting to Twitter’s Verification Reception
(01:23:50) - Peter Theil and Mimetic Desire

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