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andaiyesterday at 9:08 PM1 replyview on HN

>TikTok [is] a fascinating brute-force attack on human psychology

Security researcher once told me that he sees social media as a distributed hacking attempt on the human mind.

I think it's a genetic algorithm. You try random stuff and when something works you clone and mutate and crossbreed it.


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tstrimpleyesterday at 10:25 PM

Isn't this pretty much the definition of a meme? I mean before meme just became synonymous with funny cat videos. Like the actual meaning of the word.

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