Scott LeslieMar 13

@pluralistic's latest piece on AI psychosis contains the sentence

"the internet makes it easier for people with sparsely distributed traits to locate one another, which is why the internet era is characterized by the coherence of people with formerly fringe characteristics into organized blocs."

That strikes me as generically accurate - is there a name for this phenomenon?

Show threadD'Arcy Norman 🇨🇦Mar 13
@sleslie I remember @blamb describing something similar about the effect of WFMU on a Saskatchewan kid, going from "I don't belong here" to "one of us!" (paraphrased)
Show threadScott LeslieMar 13
@dnorman oh for sure, it's along remarked on phenomenon, I just wondered if we had named it
Show threadAlan is @cogdog 🇨🇦
@sleslie @dnorman It's definitely not edupunk ;-) Maybe.
Mar 13 at 6:17pmWeb