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The appearance of this article on HN strikes an uncanny valley for me. I independently recalled and told a friend about this river just a few hours ago, having
by dizzant 4y ago
The appearance of this article on HN strikes an uncanny valley for me. I independently recalled and told a friend about this river just a few hours ago, having not thought of it or done any digital interactions with the idea in probably more than a year. I searched it on DDG to show a picture. Now, suddenly, it’s #3 on HN.
Am I going mad? Is the surveillance state so deep in my subconscious that I fail to notice it’s observations? This article isn’t even tech related, why is it here?
- morpheos137 4y agoThis happens to me frequently too. Think of something obscure then it appears on HN. It is neither coincidence or surveillance. Reality is an information fractal.
- reb 4y agoEither we’re all living in your dream (not terribly likely from my perspective) or you’ve stumbled upon one of life’s great joys: the so-called “delusion of reference”, a fun trick our minds like to play on us sometimes. Congrats on your unsettling coincidence :)
- morpheos137 4y agoDelusions of reference should be statistically verifiable as delusions. Has anybody ever tried? For starters how many thoughts does a typical human have in a day?
- jschveibinz 4y agoYou are not going mad. Now, just relax. The HN interface to your brain waves is a little noisy right now, and it works better when you are relaxed... /s
- onethought 4y agoOr your friend is the OP?
- sbierwagen 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_phenomenon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baader%E2%80%93Meinhof_phenome...
- tmpz22 4y agoThere’s a popular video heavily recommended on YouTube right now which has likely bounced around link aggregators like Reddit, HN, and other blogs etc. Odds are you saw some derivative of that. This is just the regurgitation of the internet causing a deja vu effect
- poisonarena 4y agois that what uncanny valley means?
- poisonborz 4y agoNo, that relates to human aesthetics.
- syzygyhack 4y agoJust the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon at work! Or perhaps a synchronicity, if you are inclined to believe in such things. A similar thing happened to me the last time the Strid popped up on Reddit and HN. It was only a day after I had just returned from a popular walking route which passes alongside it and the Abbey.
- ciphol 4y agoNo, there are thousands of us here, and by chance one of us will have thought of the idea recently, and this time it's you.