> The term was coined by Eric Weinstein in 2018.

Coincidence or intentional? Either way, nice

That particular meaning of "audience capture" might be Weinstein's coinage, but the term itself predates that; you can just search Google Scholar to confirm.

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tsongas4 4 days ago | parent [-]

Mathematicians went nuts trying to invalidate Gödel. Imo similar phenomena to our senses; chasing an endlessly big numbers with no real outcome but growing some number that ostensibly represents an audience but who knows if its real or just numbers on a screen.

Religious belief is same biological phenom, chasing endless propagation of the religion.

Minds go fractal. It's like Snowcrash but they’re not blank, they speak in tongues, circumlocuting gibberish.

	▲	hermitcrab 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		>Mathematicians went nuts trying to invalidate Gödel. But they failed. Gödel's incompleteness theorm is now a widely accepted part of mathematical canon.

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hermitcrab 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't notice that!