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vunderbatoday at 5:17 PM1 replyview on HN

> If I see a million fake Tom Cruise videos, then it oversaturates my desire for desire for all Tom Cruise movies.

I often call this over-saturation the media equivalent of semantic satiation. Anything commoditized or mass-manufactured isn't going to have emotional appeal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation


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mannanjtoday at 5:29 PM

I've often had an "addictive" personality and now I see it as an over satiation, in a semantic way, sort of thing. When I found something I liked I would over saturate my self in it, and lose interest and move on faster than others I knew.

Feels like what you described describes that inner personality trait better than I have heard before.

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