Dude, who even knows.
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Okay so “beep-boopism” and data journalism and effective altruism and moneyballism are the same thing right? The resonances are strong enough for that to be a productive category, at least.
And honestly I think it might be largely an epiphenomenon of consumer computers finally being powerful enough to brute-force large data sets enough to deliver interesting results, and the resulting prestige leading those techniques to spill over into different fields where everything looks like a nail, the same way everything has always been about to deliver immortality.
So the insulting way to put it, your worldview is part of the same fad as Dwarf Fortress.
Also an insulting way to put it, your worldview is like that time in the ‘90s when CGI got just good enough and “morphing” and low-poly animation was everywhere. You know, the kind of stuff vaporwave’s calling back to.
And academics in fields from business to philosophy to gender were like “Yes, Virtual Reality MUDs are definitely the next big thing, both in themselves and as a metaphor for everything else.”
I maybe should A/B test those.
Halfassed speculation:
qualitative romanticism as thesis
quantitative beep-boopism as antithesis
neotenous autism chic as synthesis
(Compare Victorian synaesthesia chic, Spiritualism-as-science)
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