july

@july 

Please can you help us understand meme culture?

As exhibited in the course of history up and until the game stop saga, doge coin, shiba-inu,etc

Some loose thoughts about memes:

Art throughout history has often found itself propagate through mimesis, through mimicry. Art and expression often are presented through re-presentation of reality, some experience, or some state of what we experience, or that we see or feel - a representative reality

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

Memes are like sauce, reduced - in the sense that they have as many path ways as possible to carry different experiences that we may have. A shared symbol, an expression, some experience, or situation that we might encounter. Through this vehicle we put our experience in this container, like a box in the trunk of a car

So I feel like memes are valuable in the sense that they are shared experiences of our reality, that we can describe to each other, and point to each other in a way that we can agree at what that shared reality in fact is. In that sense, the value of memes is that it is a vehicle to communicate those shared realities

A thought: the growth of memes is tied to Moore's Law - the more computational power we have, the more memes we can make. Increase in bandwidth + computational power is what has led us to be able to share more bytes of data, quicker - like the Amps & Voltage are both increasing - means we can share more and faster

There is a sort of feedback control here. The creator has an input into the system, the controller outputs a meme into the world (target system) some people out in the world see the memes thru their sensors (transducer) and then they take that input and compare it to their reality

This feedback loop is getting tighter and faster as the amount of data you through pipe through to the controller increases and the the dynamics model gets better too, and the sensors get better. And as the frequency of the control loop (i.e. the Hz increases), the size of the messages you want to send gets smaller

Yeah ok, this metaphor is breaking down a bit, but I'm still sold on this feedback control / control theory in general - we are non-linear dynamical systems after all (that's what I think of whenever I see @nonlinear.eth btw)

Yeah ok, this metaphor is breaking down a bit, but I'm still sold on this feedback control / control theory in general - we are non-linear dynamical systems after all (that's what I think of whenever I see @nonlinear.eth btw)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system

How do memecoins fit into all of this? If companies are ways to invest in an abstract entity that manufactures products or produces services, investing in Memecoins is like investing in shared realities that we have. These shared realities, they might be trends, or fads, they might have seasons, but they are valuable

Memecoins are a way to invest in shared realities that we have at a certain moment in time - some are longer than fad than others

In some ways, we represent these different realities often subjectively, through our experiences, but often it turns out that these subjective trials and tribulations that we go through, share through art or music or otherwise are universal, and there is some universality to them

Memes as a reduced version of this

nerdery

culture = ideas + artifacts that reflect+reinforce ideas

memes = shorthand culture, text idea+picture context

brevity prized on social, so picture context used to convey meaning, text reinforces, subverts, or reverts image context

humor is same, context+setup+punchline to subvert expectations

funny meme = best meme

my attempt. 1 cast

https://warpcast.com/ispeaknerd.eth/0xf0b0fba2

Memes are essentially satire art. Satirical art is all about seeing the humor, irony, or exaggeration to critique societal norms, political issues, or cultural trends. 😂

Some memes can definitely provoke thought, challenge authority, entertain audiences while making a commentary on the world around them. 🥳

This is very interesting. More loose thoughts. If I ventured a definition of art it would be something like this: the discovery of the myriad nature of experience. All of it, science, memes, language, painting, sculpture, GIFart, etc seems to be a means for understanding the possibilities of experience.