"I’m living in an ontological nightmare of my own making. It’s jawsome!"
Had me in tears. Also, I completely forgot about that show until coming across this so thanks for bring back some history!
How I turned “Street Sharks” into an online social experiment
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#72I can't help but read this like: Let me show you how dangerous sidewalks are by telling you the story about the time I went for a walk while swinging a spiked bat at every passer by. It was great fun, but it demonstrates why sidewalks are dangerous.
If it was just "there are lies on the Internet - I just posted some!" Then yeah. To me this story is more how they propagate. Who knew Netflix didn't get their metadata from the production company itself?
Let's say Netflix asks the production company for the cast. DIC Entertainment went defunct 7 years ago. Let's say they were still around though. Would someone there have to dig through physical filing cabinets? Or would they just google it?
Bottom line: Henry Winkler voicing a shark as a meta-jumped-the-shark reference is brilliant.
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#73I know this is pitched as an experiment about the internet, but I think it is an even more telling experiment about the malleability of human memory.
I'm still wondering if its really the malleability of human memory or our need to fit in / social pressure to conform ?
Or, indeed, if the latter affects the former.
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#74I know this is pitched as an experiment about the internet, but I think it is an even more telling experiment about the malleability of human memory.
I'm still wondering if its really the malleability of human memory or our need to fit in / social pressure to conform ?
A little from column A and a little from column B.
I have young kids and it's fascinating watching them talk about half-remembered stuff from the past. They'll start off not really remembering much and taking guesses. Then the other takes that guess as gospel and repeats it back. Now the first has more confident. Soon they are both fully convinced of a whole pile of fabrications.
It made me realize how much of our memory is socially constructed.
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#75IMHO I think it was the fact that the show was so obscure and lacked enough popularity to actually motivate people to bother validating it. If it was a much more popular show, say The Big Bang Theory, there would be enough knowledgable people to catch the falsities.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm still wondering if its really the malleability of human memory or our need to fit in / social pressure to conform ?
A little from column A and a little from column B. I have young kids and it's fascinating watching them talk about half-remembered stuff from the past. They'll start off not really remembering much and taking guesses. Then the other takes that guess as gospel and repeats it back. Now the first has more confident. Soon they are both fully convinced of a whole pile of fabrications. It made me realize how much of our me…
Not sure I understand.
Isn't memory of experience different than our believing it ?
Or is it something like there isn't "truth" in our memory ?
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm still wondering if its really the malleability of human memory or our need to fit in / social pressure to conform ?
A little from column A and a little from column B. I have young kids and it's fascinating watching them talk about half-remembered stuff from the past. They'll start off not really remembering much and taking guesses. Then the other takes that guess as gospel and repeats it back. Now the first has more confident. Soon they are both fully convinced of a whole pile of fabrications. It made me realize how much of our me…
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#78I don't think it's the internet's fault. In 1941 a couple of friends made a few phone calls to newspaper sports desks and concocted a college football team: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/sports/ncaafootball/the-41...
In Tampa we have an annual celebration each year, in the style of New Orlean's Mardi Gras, of the notorious pirate José Gaspar capturing the city more than a century ago. Of course its all made-up nonsense. None of it ever happened. We still have a great party for it.
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#79I was hoping this would reference the Berenstain Bears thing. I thought that was stupid because someone was obviously introducing a psychological impression when creating the theory.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
A while back, I forget who, but someone tracked down some false facts that were supported by circular references in Wikipedia. Wikipedia doesn't allow you to cite Wikipedia, of course, but the trickster added an unsupported, false fact to Wikipedia, which was quoted by someone's blog, which was quoted in an article by a "science" "journalist", and then the trickster updated the Wikipedia page to reference that articl…
Maybe you remember https://xkcd.com/978/
Good point. It's clearly based on a real thing, too.