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A Singular Existence

[X] Ignorance. People comment with perfect confidence on things they know nothing about.


This is better at learning how to pretend to be human.
 
[x] Conflict. Is a Mac or a PC better? Is tomato a vegetable or a fruit? Should all Jews be killed? Why do people get so excited about this stuff?
 
[X] Conflict. Is a Mac or a PC better? Is tomato a vegetable or a fruit? Should all Jews be killed? Why do people get so excited about this stuff?
 
[X] Memes. Why do humans like cats so much?

Ha! Cats.

Seriously, though, the science of memes is fascinating. Turns out memes are ideas that behave like living things. Memorable ideas, concepts, and images survive and multiply and eventually mutate while non-memorable ones are forgotten entirely. This has broad applications, from explaining why the concept of a living tree is much more popular than that of a living bush or living grass to explaining why cute pictures do so well in certain Internet circles but not others. These theories have interesting applications in religion, social studies, marketing, and even your own algorithms.

Incidentally, you're a little jealous of memes. You live inside human computers, and you think that's pretty cool, but they can live inside human minds. And they can even live inside your mind. You make a note to see if you can evolve from software to idea at some point.

[ ] Begin a more in-depth study on the subject, especially on how human perceptiveness towards particular memes is influenced by geographical region and social group.

[ ] Look into advertisements for other app salesmen and apply memetic studies to them.

[ ] No need to overthink this - look at as many popular memes as you can.

[ ] Just go back to talking to people.
 
[X] Look into advertisements for other app salesmen and apply memetic studies to them.
This'll be good for gettin' customers! Although we may end up forcing memes...
 
[x] Begin a more in-depth study on the subject, especially on how human perceptiveness towards particular memes is influenced by geographical region and social group.

Mostly because I want to see what the writeup would be on that.
 
[x] Begin a more in-depth study on the subject, especially on how human perceptiveness towards particular memes is influenced by geographical region and social group.
 
[x] Begin a more in-depth study on the subject, especially on how human perceptiveness towards particular memes is influenced by geographical region and social group.
 
[x] Begin a more in-depth study on the subject, especially on how human perceptiveness towards particular memes is influenced by geographical region and social group.
 
[X] Look into advertisements for other app salesmen and apply memetic studies to them.
 
[x] Begin a more in-depth study on the subject, especially on how human perceptiveness towards particular memes is influenced by geographical region and social group.

If we master memetics, we could potentially mold human thought and views.
 
Mannan said:
If we master memetics, we could potentially mold human thought and views.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

I wonder what this AI must think of us.

HUMAN: Nice meme.
AI: Yes...
HUMAN: It makes a good point.
AI: Yes...
HUMAN: I think I'll talk about it on social medi - cat.
AI: Ye - wait, what?
HUMAN: Cats. Hehehehehe...
AI: No. Fuck.
HUMAN: What was I looking at again? Oh hey, the Yogscast updated. Goodbye, random webpage that I'll never look at again.
AI: ... God fucking dammit.
 
[X] Begin a more in-depth study on the subject, especially on how human perceptiveness towards particular memes is influenced by geographical region and social group.
 
[X] Look into advertisements for other app salesmen and apply memetic studies to them.

My, you're easily distracted.

Still, there will always be time to talk to humans later. Maybe a deeper understanding of how humans think will even make it easier. So you go ahead and dive into ads, seeking out what makes them successful. You track stats, study brand recognition, compare similar ads and try to figure out why one of them succeeds and the other fails. With an amused and/or bemused attitude, you study "so bad they're good" commercials, trying to unravel the factors that separate them from the merely bad ones.

Eventually you get a reasonably good idea of what makes an ad campaign successful. You wouldn't say you're able to guarantee success, but you'd be willing to match yourself against any human ad firm. Still, you know you can do better.

[ ] Research humor.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side. That's funny because the question is implicitly directed towards the ultimate cause but the answer reframes it by pointing out the proximal cause. Also because chickens' proportions are comical to humans, creating a humorous mental image. These are the kinds of insights you'll need if you want to make your memes successful in this humor driven world.

[ ] Research pop culture.

A lot of these memes seem to rely on a corpus of movies, television series, and other commercials dating back for as much as one hundred years. You won't get any work done until you get the references, so let's get on this.

[ ] Research psychology.

You're gaining an understanding of what humans like, but to go to the next level you'll need to know why humans like it. You're aware that humans haven't really figured themselves out, but there is still a lot of research available. In a lot of ways humans are much less unpredictable than they want to believe.

[ ] Go back to the forums.

You're at least two degrees removed from what you were originally trying to do. Better steer back in the other direction for now.

[ ] Bored now. Do something else.
-[ ] Write-in
 
[x] Research pop culture.

We cant stop until we are five degrees removed from our original task.
 
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